[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mahican has been preserved, partially at least, as has also to some extent the Long Island, — the latter extending along the east side of the river as far as the Highlands, where it met the Wappanoos, which has been preserved as spoken by its more eastern families in the Massachusetts; but the dialects on the west,.as they were modified by association with those on the east, and the dialects of the east as modified by association with those on the west, are lost except as they live in geographical names, which resist established rules of interpretation, or are approxi mately preserved as they were spoken elsewhere, modified by different associations. How widely they differed, can be inferred from Loskiel's statement that the Minsi of the Hudson resem bled the Mahican and the Sbawanoeand was scarce understood by its more western families — how widely they differ in the imper fect forms in which they have been preserved, a few words from each will sufficiently illustrate. Man, in Long Island, is run; wonnun (white man) in Wappinoo or Massachusetts, wosketomp-, in Mahican neemanoo; in Delaware and Minsi, lenno. Mother, in Long Island, is cwca-y in Massachusetts, okaooh; APPENDIX. 337 in Mahican, okegan; in Minsi, guy; in Delaware, gabowes. Stone, in Long Island, is sun; in Massachusetts, bussun; in Ma hican, thaunaumka; in Minsi, achsun, in Delaware, akbsm (stone), pemapukhk (rock).