[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] given by Mr. Eliot, the negative form of elementary words is matt a; the local inflection ett; the adjective great, missi; black, moot; white, wompi. 45 356 HUDSON RIVER INDUNS. * " The Indian languages also contain generic syllables or particles in the shape of inflections to nouns and verbs; in the Algonquin, abo, a liquid; jegun, or simply gun, an instrument; jewun, a current; wunzh, a plant; ong or onk, a place, &c. " By these concentrations, descriptive words become replete with meanings; but it requires a very nice collocation and ad justment of syllables to attain the requisite degree of euphony, for the adoption of such compounds by foreign ears. Generally, words of three syllables recommend themselves to the English ear for quantity, in geographical names adopted from an Indian language, as heard in Oswego, Chicago, Ohio, Monadnock, and Toronto. In the terms suggested in the following lists of words, intended to be introduced into our geographical nomen clature, the principles of elision and concentration referred to, have been applied. The root-forms carry the entire significa tion to which they are entitled, in the elementary vocabulary, after they have been divested, by analysis, of their adjuncts.