Many of them were particular names in the form of verbals indicating a place where the action of the verb was performed ; occasionally the name of a sachem is given as that of his place of residence or the stream on whidh he resided, but all are from generic roots. To the Algonquian dialects spoken in the valley of Hudson's River at the time of the discovery, was added later the Mohawk- Troquorian, to some extent, more particularly on the north, where it appears about 162 1-6, as indicated in the blanket deed given by the Five Nations to King George in 1726. Territorially, in the primary era of European invasion, the Eastern Algonquian prcr

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vailed, in varying idioms, on both sides of the river, from a northern point to the Katskills, and from thence south to the Highlands a type of the Unami-AIinsi-Lenape or Delaware. That spoken around New York on both sides of the river, was classed by the early Dutch writers as Manhattan, as distinguished from dialects in the Highlands and from the Savano or dialects of the East New England coast. North of the Highlands on both sides of the river, they classed the dialect as Wapping, and from the Katskills north as Mahican or Alohegan, preserved in part in what is known a^s the Stockbridge. Presumably the dialects were more or less mixed and formed as a whole \Vhat may be termed " The Hudson's River Dialect," radically Lenape or Delaware, as noted by Governor Tryon in 1774. In local names we seem to meet the Upper-Unami and the Minsi of New Jersey, and the Mohegan and the Natick of the north and east, the Ouiripi of the Sound, and the dialect of the Connecticut Valley. In the belt of country south of the Katskills they were soft and vocalic, the lingual mute t frequently appearing and r taking the place O'f the Eastern / and n.