The verbs are seldom defective, or imperfect: though they may seem to be so to persons who do not understand the idiom of their language, they are not; they only appear as such by the near resemblance of words, which convey a different meaning—as _A-kai-a_, “I go,” _Sa-kai-a_, “I am satisfied with eating,” and _Sal-kai-a_, “I am angry, cross, vexed, or disturbed in mind;” _Shee-a_, _Che-kai-a_, and _Chil-kai-a_, in the second person; _Ai-a_, _E-kai-a_, and _Al-kai-a_, in the third person singular. _A-pee-sa_ signifies “to see,” and _Al-pêê-sa_, “strait, even, or right;” _Al-poo-ê-ak_, the general name of mercantile goods, I subjoin, as such a word is uncommon with them; they seldom use so harsh a termination. I shall here close this argument, and hope {73} enough hath been said to give a clear idea of the principles of the Indian language and dialects, its genius and idiom, and strong similarity to, and near coincidence with the Hebrew—which will be not easily accounted for, but by considering the American Indians as descended from the Jews. ARGUMENT VI. They count TIME after the manner of the Hebrews. They divide the year into spring—summer—autumn, or the fall of the leaf—and winter: which the Cheerake Indians call _Kogeh_, _Akooèa_, _Oolekóhstè_, _Kòra_; and the Chikkasah and Choktah nation, _Otoolpha_, _Tóme palle_, _Ashtòra-móona_, _Ashtòra_. _Kógeh_ is drawn from _Anantòge_, the general appellation for the sun and moon; because, when the sun returns from the southern hemisphere, he covers the vegetable world with a green livery. _Akooèa_ alludes strongly to the essential divine name, as we have seen in the former argument. With regard to _Oolekohste_, “the fall of the leaf,” as they call a buzzard, _Soore_, or _Soole_; and as _Soolekohste_ signifies troublesome, offensive, disagreeable, the word signifies, that “the fall of the year is as disagreeable a sight, as that of a buzzard.” _Kora_, as with the Hebrews, signifies the winter; and is likewise the name of a bone: and by joining _Hah_, an Hebrew note of admiration, to the end of it, as _Kora-Hah_, it becomes the proper name of a man, signifying, “all bones,” or very bony. _Otool-phà_, “the spring season,” is derived from _Oolpha_, the name of a bud, or to shoot out; because then the solar heat causes vegetables to bud and spring. _Tomeh_ signifies “the solar light,” and _Palle_, “warm or hot;” _Ashtora_, “winter,” and _Moona_, “presently,” &c.