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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
There are no adverbs in either language. There are but two in 
our own which may not be expressed by a verb or an adnoun, 
still and since ; and these they express by the conjunctions hut and 
because. " I intreated, but (still) he would not/' " because (since) 
it is so/' as the Latins frequently used prepositions for the Greek 
adverbs. Indeed since is expressible by a verb, being derived 
according to Mr. Tooke from the Saxon sithan, seeing that. They 
express the adverb much by the adjective many ; ago by a verb, " it 
passes ten years/' almost by the verb it zmnts, '' it waiits to rain/' 
and when hy a noun, " the time I was there," coincident with 
Jones's derivation of oVe.* Nooyewon, {because) in Accra, is lite- 
rally, "/br the sake of." Interah, the corresponding word in Fantee, 
" on the head of," (tirree is head) thus, they would say, " I do this 
on your head," or because you told me. Lest, which is considered 
by Mr. Home Tooke to be the past participle of the Saxon verb 
leyan, to dismiss, is not to be found either in the Accra or Fantee : 
in the former they would say, " Menkaw hauh ehhehdrddi;' " do 
not go there, you fall down /' and in the latter, " Kaiheah djai 
nee oheabwayshee," " do not go there, and (or for) you fall down." 
The use of the iioun for the adverb is frequent in Demosthenes, 
(" £5"f ^MMiog £%e;i//' " he justly deserves ") and can only be accounted 
for in a prose writer, who does not need poetical licenses, as an 
archaism, disused generally, through invention or refinement. The 
term adverb is not a just indication of the origin of that part of 
speech, for, although they are derived from verbs as well as nouns, 
frequently substituted for I, as I have illustrated in the Chapter on Geography. Their 
pronunciation of z approximates to that of the aspro z of the Italians. I hope to have 
leisure and opportunity hereafter for paying this subject more attention. I have not yet 
had time to make sufficient progress in German to read Vater's Mithridatis, v/hidi will 
no doubt assist my observations. 
* From the Hebrew nnr, ote, tlme^ has flowed ore, znjhen; which t, tt, ott, being pre- 
fixed, becomes totj, ttote, o7roT=." 
