KTAADN. 
Orthography. 
Following are the different ways I have found the name of this moun- 
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tain in print" Ktaadn, K tar An, Ktaden,^ Ktahdin }/1 and Katahdin. The 
first and last are more' common than the others, at present. I have 
taken considerable pains to find out which is the better method) of 
spelling, and herewith give the authority for the first, which I con¬ 
sider the only correct way. 
Hon. James Hammond Trumball who is an eminent Philologist, and our 
best authority on the Indian language,—having been lecturer on the 
Indian language at Yale College, editor of "Roger Williams Key to the 
Indian Language," and said to be the only man who can read Elliot’s 
Indian Bible,-r-says that the! mountain is “prounounced Ktaadn by the 
Indians of Maine." This I consider decisive as the only rule for 
spelling such a language is to spell it as it is prounounced by the 
Aborigines. 
Charles E. Hamlin who wrote an article on Ktaadn,published 
in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 
College for 1880-04, says in a foot note: "The spelling Ktaadn is 
adopted in accordance with an opinion communicated to the writer by 
J. Hammond Truinball of Hartford, the most eminent living authority upon 
Indian dialects. “ 
William Willis in an article on "Language of the Abaquis" spells it 
Ktaadn. Judge C. E. Potter writing on the language of the Abnaqui 
IMians spells it the same. In fact I find,, all writer's on the 
Indian language spell it Ktaadn. 
