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and Efogee is the fuperlative. The words Go- 
ronta and Golota , which you mention, are not of 
the fix nations, but a Southern language. It is 
curious to obferve, that they have various modes 
of fpeech and phrafes peculiar to each age and 
fex, which they ftriddy obferve. For inftance, 
a man fays, when he is hungry, Cadagcariax , 
which is expreffive both of his want and of the 
animal food he requires to fupply it ; whilfl a 
child fays, in the fame circumftances, Cautfore , 
that is, 1 require fpoon-meat. 
There is fo remarkable a difference in the lan- 
guage of the fix nations from all others, as affords 
ground for enquiring into their diftincf origin. 
The nations North of the St. Lawrence, thofe 
Weft of the great lakes with the few who inhabit 
the fea-coafts of New England, and thofe again 
who live about the Ohio, notwithftanding the 
refpeftive diftances between them, fpeak a lan- 
guage radically the fame, and can in general com- 
municate their wants to one another ; while the 
fix nations, who live in the midft of them, are 
incapable of conveying a fingle idea to their 
neighbours, nor can they pronounce a word of 
their language with correctnefs. The letters M 
and P, which occur frequently in the other lan- 
guages, are not in theirs ; nor can they pronounce 
them but with the utmoft difficulty. There is 
indeed fome difference of dialed: among the fix 
nations themfelves ; but this is little more than 
what is found in all the European ftates. 
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