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Pauw, and some other equally systematic writers^ 
according to whom no indigenous nation of the 
new continent knows how to reckon in its own 
idiom above three=^. We are at present ac- 
quainted with the numerical systems of forty 
American languages, and the work of Abb6 Her- 
vas alone, the Arithmetic of all Nations^ ex- 
hibits near thirty. In studying these different 
languages we observe, that, when nations rise 
above their first rude state, their farther progress 
establishes scarcely any sensible difference in 
their manner of expressing quantities. The Pe- 
ruvians had at least as much skill as the Greeks 
and Romans, in denoting in their language 
numbers of several millions ; they had even, in 
order to express a million, a single word, not com- 
pounded, hunii^ to which the idioms of the old 
world offer no one analogous. Hue, one ; iscay, 
two ; qimga, three ; chunca, ten ; chuc 
huniyoc, eleven ; chunca iscayniyoc, twelve ; 
iscaychunca, twenty ; qimga chunca, thirty ; 
talma chunca, forty pachac, a hundred ; 
iscaypachac, two hundred ; ^ huaranca, one 
thousand ; iscay-huaranca, two thousand 
chimcahuaranca, ten thousand ; iscay-chunca- 
huaranca, twenty thousand ; pachachuaranca, a 
hundred thousand ; hunu, a million ; iscay hunu, 
^ Rcchircht€ Philosophiqucs sur les AmericainSy Part 5, 
sect. 1, toui. 2, p, 162 (ed* 011760). 
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