the same; they locate a place or object that is at, in, or on some other place or object, the name of Which is prefixed, as in Delaware _Hitgunk,_ "On or to a tree;" _Utenink,_ "In the town;" _Wachtschunk,_ "On the mountain." In some cases the locative takes the verbal form indicating place or country, Williams wrote "_Sachimauónck,_ a Kingdom or Monarchy." Dr. Schoolcraft wrote: "From _Ojibwai_ (Chippeway) is formed _Ojib-wain-ong,_ 'Place of the Chippeways;' _Monominikaun-ing,_ 'In the place of wild rice,'" Dr. Brinton wrote "_Walum-ink,_ 'The place of paint.'" The letter _s,_ preceding the locative, changes the meaning of the latter to near, or something less than at or on. The suffixes _-is, -it, -os, -es_ mean "Small," as in _Ménates_ or _Ménatit,_ "Small island." The locative affix cannot be applied to an animal in the sense of at, in, on, to. There are many formative inflections and suffixes indicating the plural, etc. Mohawk or Iroquoian names, while polysynthetic, differ from Algonquian in construction. "The adjective," wrote Horatio Hale, "when employed in an isolated form, follows the substantive, as _Kanonsa,_ 'house;' _Kanonsa-kowa,_ 'large house;' but in general the substantive and adjective coalesce." In some cases the adjective is split in two, and the substantive inserted, as in _Tiogen,_ a composition of _Te,_ "two," and _ogen,_ "to separate," which is split and the word _ononté,_ "mountain," or hill, inserted, forming _Te-ononté-ogen,_ "Between two mountains," "The local relations of nouns are expressed by affixed particles, such as _ke, ne, kon, akon, akta._ Thus from _Onónta,_ mountain, we have _Onóntáke,_ at (or to) the mountain; from _Akéhrat_ dish, _Akehrátne,_ in or on the dish," etc. From the variety of its forms and combinations it is a more difficult language than the Algonquian. No European has fully mastered it.