to trace its compounds to their embryotic roots, and to seize upon those principles of thought and utterance, by attention to

which, there has been created in the forests of America, one of the most polysyllabic and completely transpositive modes of

communicating thought that exists. Humboldt applies the term " agglutinated" structure of the language. tion,

in defining the If by agglutination be meant accre

and the adhesive principle be

certainly appropriate.

its

syntax, the

term

is

Whatever is agglutinated in the material

world requires gluten to attach piece to piece, and

its

analogy

in the intellectual process of sticking syllable to syllable, and word to word, is the accretive principle ; and this syllabical

HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.

gluten is precisely that to which the closest attention is required to trace its syntax.

The accretive system upon which the Word-Building. Waub language is based is most clearly illustrated by analysis. 7.

is,

apparently, the radix of the verb, to see, and of the word, Waubun is the east, or sunlight, and, inferentially, place

light.

dub is the name of the eye-ball, hence ai-aub, to eye, Ozh appears tb be the root of or to see with the eye-ball. contrivance of species designed to float on water. every of light,

Wa-mit-ig-o%h, the people of the wooden-made vessel

this

the Algonquin term for a Frenchman. O%, vessel ; mitig, trees or timbers, and wa^ a plural phrase indicative of persons. is

It

is

the Indian must have had a term

said

for grape,