These aberrations from the literal term, will convey some conceptions of the difference of the two idioms, although, from the limited nature and object of the examples, they will not indicate the full extent of this difference. In giving anything like the spirit of the original, much greater deviations, in the written forms, must appear. And in fact, not only the structure of the language, but the mode and _order of thought_ of the Indians is so essentially different, that any attempts to preserve the English idiom--to give letter for letter, and word for word, must go far to render the translation pure nonsense. 2. Varied as the adjective is, in its changes it has no comparative inflection. A Chippewa cannot say that one substance is hotter or colder than another; or of two or more substances unequally heated, that this, or that is the hottest or coldest, without employing adverbs, or accessory adjectives. And it is accordingly by adverbs, and accessory adjectives, that the degrees of comparison are expressed. Pimmaudizziwin, is a very general substantive expression, in indicating _the tenor of being or life_. Izzhewaebizziwin, is a term near akin to it, but more appropriately applied to the _acts, conduct, manner, or personal deportment of life_. Hence the expressions: Nin bimmaudizziwin, My tenor of life. Ke bimmaudizziwin, Thy tenor of life. O Pimmaudizziwin, His tenor of life, &c. Nin dizekewaebizziwin, My personal deportment. Ke dizhewaebizziwin, Thy personal deportment. O Izzhewaebizziwin, His personal deportment, &c. To form the positive degree of comparison for these terms minno, good, and mudjee, bad, are introduced between the pronoun and verb, giving rise to some permutations of the vowels and consonants, which affect the sound only. Thus:-- Ne minno pimmaudizziwin, My good tenor of life. Ke minno pimmaudizziwin, Thy good tenor of life. Minno pimmaudizziwin, His good tenor of life. Ne mudjee pimmaudizziwin, My bad tenor of life. Ke mudjee pimmaudizziwin, Thy bad tenor of life. Mudjee pimmaudizziwin, His bad tenor of life. To place these forms in the comparative degree, nahwudj, more, is prefixed to the adjective; and the superlative is denoted by mahmowee, an adverb, or an adjective as it is variously applied, but the meaning of which, is, in this connexion, most. The degrees of comparison may be therefore set down as follows:-- _Positive_, Kishedae, Hot, (restricted to the heat of a fire.) _Comp_. Nahwudj Kishedae, More hot. _Super_. Mahmowee Kishedae, Most hot.