individual names of the first and second fingers respectively. Omitting -koo therefore now, and combining as-, 'one', with peet-, 'two', we get very closely the Pawnee haspeet, 'fingers', as the Caddo whis(te-b) it, 'one-two', gives us in like manner the Illinois wissit, 'feet', and as the Catawba eekseeah, finger', with the Sekumne biti, toe', would produce the Mexican iczitl, 'foot'. The Pawnee haspeet, 'fingers', would be the same word as the Natchez shpedee, 'five', and ispeshe, 'hand', and as the Catawba eeksapeeah, 'hand', where the first element is discernible in the Catawba eekseeah, 'finger', as the first element of the Pawnee haspeet, 'fingers', was in the Pawnee as (koo), 'one'. The second element of the Pawnee has-peet, 'fingers', and of the Catawba eeksa-peeah, 'hand', besides being found in Caddo, Pawnee, and Natchez, would appear in the following Sioux languages also, as well as in the Wallawalla (Oregon) na-pit, 'two', and in the Shoshoni nam-pa, and the Utah nam-p, 'foot':'Hand'. " Fingers'. 'Two'. These words, together with those previously cited, will not only help to exhibit the radical affinity which unites the North American languages, but will also serve another purpose. For they will sufficiently illustrate the manner in which names for 'finger' and 'hand' are employed to form numerals; and by shewing, moreover, that hand may = fingers = finger-finger (which last would be the rude plural of finger), they explain how 'hand' and 'two' may be the same word, as in the Omaha nomba, which has both those meanings. Indeed, they enable us to perceive how a whole system of numeration, or at least a whole decade, might be formed out of different words for 'finger', just as there is I= only a single element, I finger or digit, in the Roman decade, I, II, III, IIII or IV, V, VI, VII, VIII or IIX, VIIII or IX, x. Here I would be 'finger'; II, 'finger-finger'; v, 'fingerfinger, fingers, hand'; IV, 'finger from hand'; x, 'hands'; and so on of the rest. In the North American words that have been cited, there would be used three such terms for 'finger', which may be described as has, peet, and nah or nahm. With the last of these we have now no farther concern, but with has and peet a great deal; nience of memory they may be called the ' and for conveaz finger' and the 'baz finger'; the az finger' being Pawnee askoo, 'one', and the 'baz finger' = Pawnee peetkoo, 'two' = Hueco witz, 'two' Caddo bit, 'two'. By combining these two finger-names to form a word for 'fingers' or 'hand', much as we combine the first two letter-names to form the collective word alpha-bet to include all our letters, we should get azbaz, 'finger-finger' 'fingers' = ‘hand' = Pawnee haspect, 'fingers' Natchez shpedee, 'five' = Natchez ispeshe, 'hand' = Catawba eeksapeeah, 'hand'. = The following table of words will more fully exhibit how this 'hand' prevails and is employed numerically over the greater part of North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Hudson's Bay down to Honduras :— Catawba ......eeksapeeah, 'hand'. Sahaptin......spshus, 'hands'.1 hatpeshe, 'foot'. Pawnee ......haspeet, 'fingers'. ashoo, 'foot'. shpedee, 'five'. upkutepish, eight'. wedipkatepish, ' nine'. sheekshabish, 'six'. peetkoo(shee)shabish, 'seven'. touweetshabish, 'eight'. touweet, three'. 1 The Sahaptin is a language of Oregon. 1 The Hueco, called also Pawnee Picts, belong to North Texas. 2 The Takulli are in British Columbia, as also the Kolush of Sitka. 3 This language is from the coast of California. • Qu. 'eight'. 5 Qu.seven'. เ 1 Other Algonkin 'tens', in addition to the Old Algonkin metassoo, are:-Ojibway medoswe, Shawnee metathi, Shyenne mahtoto, Arapaho mahtahtah, Potawatami metato, Cree mitatut. All these are virtually identical with words now signifying leggings', as may be seen from the following parallels : 'Ten'. Ojibway, medoswe. Shawnee, metathi. Old Algonkin, metassoo. 'Leggings'. Ojibway, medos. Shawnee, mutatah. Cree, mitas. Shyenne, mahtuts. Menomeni, meteesshon. These words seem to consist of an m- prefix, followed by forms like -doswe, -tathi, -tato, -tatut, etc., which may be compared with the Uchee (Florida) tethah, 'shoes', and tetethah, 'feet', and with the Pima (Mexico) tetaght, 'feet'. Mi- commonly begins in Cree the names of different parts of the body, as in mi-chiche, ‘hand'; mi-sit, 'foot'; mispitoon, arm'; mi-skat, 'leg'; mi-skesik, 'eye'; mi-koot, 'nose'; etc. This m- prefix of the Algonkin tribes appears the same as a Californian and New Mexican prefix m-, which is used to convert arms' into 'legs', as may be seen from the Mohave isail, ‘arms', and m-isil, 'legs', or from the Cuchan eeseethl,' arms', and m-eesithl, legs'. In addition to misil and meesithl, 'legs' (both Cree misit, 'foot'), we find in California the Chemehuevi mashu, and the Soledad matsoso, 'ten', which admit of comparison with the Algonkin 'tens', metassoo, medoswe, and mahtoto. = C Dieguno......selh, hands, arms'. Copehsahlah, 'arms'. Tahlewah ...stah (? slah), 'foot'. shwallah, 'five'. The Opatoro (Honduras) iss-is, 'ten', and the Sahaptin (Oregon) spsh-us, 'hands', might both be abbreviated reduplications of the Natchez ispeshe, 'hand'. Three forms of the same kind are found in South America, where Bolivia |