toot forms;' allows great latitude and independency
in bestowing names -on things, or rather
in the choice of traits or qualities in the;; thing
to he narhed j whence it happens that the seveA
rat diverse names of the cahtohs^ for the same
thing or object, are well known and understood
breach, proving a general and original unity,ip.
those very points where philology, guided alone
by Orthoepy and orthography, finds thfi greatest
di^cfepan’cids.^ The IroquoiS- has no labials; it
rolls from the' tongue and' glottis, with lips'un-
eloèêd. And although it has Aomh'of theijeèpesl
gutturals, it abounds in long ahd open vowel
sounds, along with itsyliqulds and' aspirate^
which fall musically On the ear, and give‘rit a
manly/and- dignified flow. TfSi, nasal vowel
Sóunds and dipfhói^^ .ïis heard so oftetr in thé
Giieida and Onondaga dialects, have a peculiar
softness ahd melody.
COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE IROQUOIS.
