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

" which take the form made, as well as traditions of history," from their very general acceptance as such. It is to be regretted that the orthography of most of the Indian geo

graphical terms is so ba'dly rendered in the official records as to make interpretation almost impossible, even where the dialect

has been preserved, and especially is it to be regretted that the dialects themselves have not been preserved with more of their original character.

As an almost universal rule, however, the

may be accepted as a fact that the Indians had little of poetry in their" composition, and that, while many of their terms can be made poetical, they were originally of the plainest statement

and simplest descriptive equivalents. a large hill or a small one, a small

A black hill or a red hill, stream of water or a larger

one, or one which was muddy or stony, a field of maize, or of leeks, overhanging rocks or dashing waterfalls (patternack),