The Ottawa is nearly related to the the upon but the Shawanose, Chippewa more immediately to the Delaware.

to the

The language of the Twichtwees and Wawlachtanos resembles the Sbawanose ;

dialect

in

the Kikapus,

and Karhaski, differ from the Delaware

Tukachohas, Moshkos, proportion to their

in

distance from each other, but all are nearly related."

The Algonquin dialects spoken in the valley of the Hudson, The least six in number

at the time of the discovery, were at

:

Manhattan, the Wappanoo, the Mohican, the Minsi, the and the

It is stated that the

Unalachtin.

Unami

Mahicans conquered

the territory which they occupied, mixed with their own the dialect of the people whom they had subdued and formed that It is also said that the subsequently spoken by themselves.

Wappanoos overran the old Manhattans and created another mixed dialect, while the third type was found among the na tives of

Long Island, in which perhaps many of the

features of the Manhattan were preserved.

essential

.Of the three types

on the west, the Unami and the Unalachtin are classed as Delaware as distinguished from the Minsi. The Mahican has been preserved, partially at least, as has also to some extent the Long Island,

the latter extending along the east side of the

Highlands, where it met the Wappanoos, which has been preserved as spoken by its more eastern families in the Massachusetts ; but the dialects on the west, .as they were modified by association with those on the east, and the river