Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Issue 6

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 - America
 

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Page 162 - TRUBNER'S CATALOGUE OF DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS OF THE PRINCIPAL LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS OF THE WORLD.
Page 168 - Iroquois language, by the request of the Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. By the Rev. Eleazer Williams, VDM Revised edition of his former translation. New York. 1867. 12010, pp. 101, 38. 6353 Book of Common Prayer...
Page 8 - The Bible of Every Land : a History of the Sacred Scriptures in every Language and Dialect into which Translations have been made.
Page 14 - Formerly collected, and translated into the Mohawk Language | under the direction of the Missionaries of the Society for the | Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to the Mohawk | Indians.
Page 8 - ... sur l'histoire de la langue slave, et sur la marche progressive de la civilisation et de la littérature en Russie, avec environ sept cents vocabulaires des principaux idiomes connus, et suivi du Tableau physique, moral et politique des cinq parties du Monde...
Page 61 - To which is added a short Account of the Late Spread of the Gospel, among the Indians. Also Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians ; communicated to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences, by Jonathan Edwards, DD New Haven, Connecticut: Printed 1788. London: Reprinted, 1788, 24 pp. ' Observations,
Page 10 - Travels Through North And South Carolina, Georgia, East And West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories Of The Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, And The Country Of The Chactaws. Containing An Account Of The Soil And Natural Productions Of Those Regions; Together With Observations On The Manners Of The Indians.
Page iii - Anonymouslyprinted works are entered under the name of the author, when known, and under the first word of the title not an article or preposition when not known.
Page 48 - Nation ; | and the Intrigues and Attempts of the French to engage them from us ; | a Subject nearly concerning all our American Plantations, and highly | meriting the Consideration of the British Nation. | By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; | One of his Majesty's Counsel, and SurveyorGeneral of New-York. | To which are added, | Accounts of the several other Nations of Indians in North-America, their | Numbers, Strength, &c.
Page 61 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE MUHHEKANEEW INDIANS ; In which the Extent of that Language in North America is shewn ; " its Genius is grammatically traced; some of its Peculiarities, and some Instances of Analogy between that and the Hebrew are pointed out.

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