But Du Ponceau intimates that he has not been able by means of his own researches to satisfy himself of the accuracy of Father Raffles’s statement, as to the origin of these words, and he adds, “I do not know whence this word ‘Ni oueskou’ comes.” (“Je ne sais pas d’où vient ce mot Nioueskou.”) Among the specimens he has published of words used in the Iroquois dialects, a class of Indian languages which he has not minutely analysed, Du Ponceau gives _“__N’ iou__”_ as the name of “the Deity.” Now the following comparison exhibits the remarkable fact that these words “_N’iou_” and “Nioueskou” may be distinctly and extensively recognized in the languages of the old world, in the very sense which, according to Father Raffles, was the primitive meaning of “Nioueskou” among the Abenaki tribe of Indians, viz., in that of “_a Spirit or Genius_.” They also reappear in physical meanings, which, according to Horne Tooke’s principles, may, à priori, be pronounced to be philologically analogous. The resemblance of the Indian terms to the European and Asiatic words is as close as the resemblance which exists between such words of the two latter classes as belong to the same languages or to the same group of languages. The variation of inflection between N’ioh and Niou-es kou, may also be restored; compare No- (the root or unchangeable part of “Noos,”) with “No-os Nous,” “The Mind,” (in the nominative case, _Greek_.) Compare also “Nose,” (_English_,) with “Nas-ika,” (_Sanscrit_.) _Hebrew, Indo-European, and American Words applied to the Physical Senses._ Hebrew. Ind.-Europ. & American. N.sh.-b, N.sh.-ph, “To blow.” Nos (_Sclavonic_), Nase, &c. (_German and other Gothic tongues_), Nas-ika (_San._) N.sh.-m, “To breathe out,” Nas-us, Nas-um (_Latin._) “The N.sh.-m.e, “The Breath,” “Man Nose,” (_English._) as a Breathing Animal”.(28) N.ph.sh, “Breath.” Ee-n.sh.ou.ph, “A species of Water-fowl remarkable for its Hard Breathing.” _Applied to Mental and Physical Objects._ N.sh.-m.e “Breath,” (as above) No-os, Nou-s, (No.e.No), “The “Life,” “Soul,” “Spirit.” Mind,” (_Greek._) N’ioh.Nioues-kou, “The Genius, Spirit, God,” (_North American Indian Dialects_, as above.) N.ph.sh. “Breath,” “Life,” N.ph.sh, or Nouvis, “Full of “Mind,” “A Person or Man,” _Life_ or _Spirits_,” N.ph.sh-ce, The Pronoun “I.” (_Welsh._) These examples may be concluded with a very remarkable instance of an important word which occurs in every one of the three great divisions of the globe, except America, and is met with in every one of the three regions of Africa. WORDS FOR “BREAD.” _Asia_.—Buro (_Savu Isle, a Malay dialect_.) _Africa_.—Bouron (_Fulahs, North Africa_.) Bourou (_Iolofs, Negro-land_.) Bra Bre (_Hottentots, South Africa_.)