[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] or whose curiosity prompts them to the study, will consult the original. Grammar of the Algonquin Language. I. Alphabet. The Algonquin possesses all the vowel sounds as heard in far, fate, fall; met, meet; shine, pin; not, note, move; put, nut. It has two labials, b and/); five dentals, d, /, j, z, and j or £, soft; two nasals, m and n; and two primary gutturals, k and £, hard. The letters/, r, v, are wanting. The sound of x is also believed to be wanting in all the Algonquin dialects but the Delaware and Mahican of the Hudson valley, in which it is fully heard in Coxsackie, and in a few of the ear lier geographical terms of New Jersey, the sound of r is repre sented in ah. Thus an alphabet of five vowels and thirteen consonants is capable of expressing, either simply or in com bination, every full sound of the Algonquin language. In this estimate of primary sounds, the letters <:, and ^, and y as re presenting a vowel sound, are entirely rejected. The soft of c is J, the hard, k. The sound of ^is always that of k. In the formation of words the vowelic, diphthongal and mixed sounds are syllabic. The following table represents the elementary syllables on the primary vowel sounds : (0 (*)