A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.Williams, Roger
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A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.
Williams, Roger
Narragansett Indians; Narragansett language
I have read over these thirty Chapters of the American Language,
to me wholly unknowne, and the Observations, these I conceive
inoffensive; and that the Worke may conduce to the happy end intended
by the Author.
Io. LANGLEY.
Printed according to this Licence; and entred into Stationers Hall.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Pg 5: ‘establish an enact’ replaced by ‘establish and enact’.
Pg 6: ‘whom the preident’ replaced by ‘whom the president’.
Pg 7: ‘an acconnt of’ replaced by ‘an account of’.
Pg 12: ‘concluded treates’ replaced by ‘concluded treaties’.
Pg 18: ‘Natives, Salvages’ replaced by ‘Natives, Savages’.
Pg 19: ‘call themselues’ replaced by ‘call themselves’.
Pg 31: ‘seaven yeares after’ replaced by ‘seven yeares after’.
Pg 32: ‘lodge with yon’ replaced by ‘lodge with you’.
Pg 34: ‘Is the water coo.’ replaced by ‘Is the water coole?’.
Pg 41: ‘21’ replaced by ‘21, &c.’.
Pg 41: ‘30, &c.’ replaced by ‘30’.
Pg 44: ‘An Old mn,’ replaced by ‘An Old man,’.
Pg 44: ‘Old men.a’ replaced by ‘Old men.’.
Pg 45: ‘ars distinguished’ replaced by ‘are distinguished’.
Pg 47: ‘of the Couutrey’ replaced by ‘of the Countrey’.
Pg 55: ‘I use is.’ replaced by ‘I use it.’.
Pg 55: ‘too foot long’ replaced by ‘two foot long’.
Pg 62: ‘hey will stile’ replaced by ‘they will stile’.
Pg 65: ‘Ablalive case’ replaced by ‘Ablative case’.
Pg 78: ‘In stormy vvinter’ replaced by ‘In stormy winter’.
Pg 93: ‘Doe you trash?’ replaced by ‘Doe you thrash?’.
Pg 95: ‘Pig, and and rooting’ replaced by ‘Pig, and rooting’.
Pg 113: ‘Men and Women men goe’ replaced by ‘Men and Women goe’.
Pg 118: ‘the Ordiances’ replaced by ‘the Ordinances’.
Pg 126: ‘then the women’ replaced by ‘than the women’.
Pg 134: ‘of Eng- or Dutch’ replaced by ‘of English or Dutch’.
Pg 151: ‘The honse was’ replaced by ‘The house was’.
TABLE: ‘VIII. Of Of Discourse’ replaced by ‘VIII. Of Discourse’.
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