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ogttel, or fmgent ; forty, herroguei^ or daouhgent ; 
sixty, irurogueiy or trihiigent. It is interesting, 
to trace the formation of the small groups of 
five, ten, or twenty of these systems of nnmera- 
tion in their different gradations ; all neverthe- 
less presenting that same uniformity of feature, 
by which all the inventions of mankind in the 
first ages of its social existence are characte- 
rized, 
Mr. Duquesne has made various etymological 
researches on the words, which denote numbers 
in the Chibclia language. He asserts, that 
all these words are significant ; that all depend 
on roots, which relate, either to phases of the 
Moon in its increase or wane, or to objects of 
agriculture or worship.” As no dictionary of 
the Chibcha language exists, we cannot veiify 
the justness of this assertion ; we cannot be too 
mistrustful of etymological researches, and shall 
satisfy ourselves with here presenting the signifi- 
cations of the numbers from one to twenty, as 
they are given in the manuscript which I brought 
from Santa Fe. We shall only add, that P. 
Lugo, without entering into other discussions, 
relates, in his grammar of the Chibcha language, 
that the word gue denotes a house ; and that he 
finds it unaltered in gae-ata (by syncope gueta)^ 
twenty, one house ; gite-hosa^ two twenties, forty, 
or two houses ; gue-hisca^ five twenties, a hun- 
dred, or five houses. 
