hills ;

Tar-i-o,

:

beautiful

waters ;

On-ti-o,

rocks ;

Os-i-o,

beautiful

beautiful

view."

Examples of transpositions and

elisions are

abundantly fur

nished, but sufficient have been quoted to illustrate the principle and direct attention to the subject. Instead of Smith's corners,

Johnson's mills, arid a class of local terms without significance, might be introduced Na-pee-na, abounding in birds ; Al-gan-see, .

water of the plains ; I-6s-co, water of light ; I-e-nia, wanderer's rest;

Was-sa-han-na, bright river; Sho-min-ac, grape-land;

Mon-a-kee, spirit land Tal-lu-la, leaping waters ; Os-se-go, beautiful view ; Bis-co-da, beautiful plain, terms of appropriate and ;

For private residences or country seats, no class of terms could be applied more expressive or more

permanent import.

Ame

rican.

The titles of the old world certainly need not be copied

when those that are fresh and fragrant await adoption. Dialectic Vocabularies.

Dialectic vocabularies, while not without

their

value

for

comparative purposes and for supplying primitive terms, afford As a general rule, those which but little aid in other respects.

have been preserved are composed of words spoken in different localities and. at different periods, and frequently mislead the inquirer.

Those having occasion to do so, will consult them in

their most complete form in Schooler affs History, and in tin's

Synopsis.

illustrative.

The

table

annexed

is

introduced

as

Gallasimply

Voca

parative

APPENDIX.

III.

GEOGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE AND TRADITIONS. (

N addition to the geographical terms which have been given in the body of this work, there are many to which reference may very properly be