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LANGUAGE. 
adduce a few instances in each, of words taken 
from the vocabularies I have mentioned before, for 
King George’s Sound, Adelaide, Encounter Bay, 
and Port Lincoln, and supply them myself from 
other dialects, including those meeting on the 
Murray or at the Darling, to shew the degree of 
similarity that exists in language. 
In selecting the examples for comparison, I have 
taken first the personal pronouns and numerals, as 
being the words which usually assimilate more 
closely in the different dialects, than any other. 
Secondly, those words representing objects which 
would be common to all tribes, and which from 
their continual recurrence, and daily use, might 
naturally be supposed to vary the least from each 
other, if the original language of all were the same, 
but which, if radically different in any, render the 
subject still more difficult and embarrassing. 
