[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sounds. If we compare this principle to a thread, parts of which are white, black, green, blue and yellow, the white may stand as the symbol of five vowelic classes of words in a, the 350 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. black in b; the green in c; the blue in d; and the yellow in e. It creates no confusion to the eye to add, that there is a filament of red running through the whole series of colored strands, whereby five additional distinctions are made, making ten in all. These represent the two great classes of sounds of the Algonquin grammar, denoting what has been called the epicene. and anti-epicene scheme. If we would know to what class of conjugations a word belongs, we must inquire how the plural is made. It will be borne in mind that all verbs, like all substantives, either termi nate in a vowel sound, or, where they do not, that a vowel sound must be added in making the plural, in order that it may serve as a coalescent for the epicene g or the anti-epicene ». Thus man, inine^ is rendered men, ininewug, not by adding the simple epicene plural ug, but by throwing a w before it, making the plural in wug. So paup^ to laugh, is rendered plural in wug^ and not ug; whilst minnis, an island, sebens^ a brook, and all