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. In the Minsi (Del.) Zeisberger wrote / invariably, as distinguished from r, which appears in the earliest local names in the valley of the Hudson. Other dialectic peculiarities seem to appear in the exchange of the sonant g for the hard sound of the surd mute k, and of p for g, s for g, and t for d, st for gk, etc. Initials are badly mixed, presumably due in part at least, to the habit of Indian speakers in throwing the sound of the word forward to the penult ; in some cases to the lack of an " Indian ear " on the part of the hearer. In structure all Algonquian dialects are Polysynthetic, i. e., words composed wholly or in part oFother words or generic roots. Pronunciations and inflections dififer as do the words in meaning in many cases. In all dialects tbe most simple combina;tions appear in geographical names, w'hidh the late Dr. J. H. Trumbull resolved into three classes, viz. : " I. Those formed by the union of two elements, which we will call adjectival and substantival, or groundword, with or without a locative suffix, or post-position word meaning 'at,' 'in,' 'on,' 'near/ etc. [I use the terms 'adjectival' and ' substantival,' because no true adjectives or substantives enter into the composition of Algonquian names.