[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by these elisions and transpositions, the number of syllables of which a new class of words shall consist, is a question to be predetermined. Expletive consonants, harsh gutturals, and double inflections, the pests of Indian lexography, are dropped, and the selections made from syllables which abound in liquid and vowel sounds. For it should be the object to preserve, as APPENDIX. 357 new elements in this peculiar branch of American literature, not the harsh and barbarous, but the soft and sonorous sounds. I. Terms from the Algonquin. " As a basis for these terms, we take, from the vocabulary of analyzed words, the primary terms ad, ab, os, w ud, pat, mo, at, seeb, gon, pew, cbig, naig, ag, mon, tig, cos, pen, mig, won; meaning respectively deer, home, pebble, mountain, hill, spring, channel or current, river, clay-land, iron, shore, sand, water's edge, corn, tree, grass, bird, ea gle, rose-bud. Subjecting these nominatives to the adjective expression ia, signifying beautiful, fair, admirable, and placing the particle nac, land, earth, soil, in the objective, and changing the latter for gan a lake; bee, water; min, good; na, excellent; ma, large water; ock, forest; we have the following trisyllabic terms :