Adjacent to them, but to the east of the Rocky Mountains, lie-- 12. The _Tsikani_ (_Sicunnies_). The Athabaskan is the _first_ class in our list; and, if we look only at the area which its population occupies, it is a great one. All the Athabaskan languages or dialects are mutually intelligible. _The Algonkins._--The _second_ class is the Algonkin. It is greater in every way than the Athabaskan--greater in respect to the number of its divisions and subdivisions, greater in respect to the ground it covers, and greater in respect to the range of difference which it embraces. All the Algonkin languages are not mutually intelligible. Unlike the Athabaskan the Algonkin stock is nearly equally divided between the United States and Great Britain. Unlike, too, the Athabaskan, it is divided between the Canadas and our other possessions and the Hudson's Bay territory. The whole of the Canadas, with one small but important exception, the whole of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward's Isle, is Algonkin. Labrador and Newfoundland are chiefly Algonkin. To this stock belonged and belong the extinct and extant Indians of New England, part of New York, part of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, part of the Carolinas, and part of even Kentucky and Tennessee; a point of American rather than of British ethnology, but a point necessary to be noted for the sake of duly appreciating the magnitude of this stock. Amongst others, the Pequods, the Mohicans, the Narragansetts, the Massachuset, the Montaug, the Delaware, the Menomini, the Sauks, the Ottogamis, the Kikkapús, the Potawhotamis, the Illinois, the Miami, the Piankeshaws, the Shawnos, &c. belong to this stock--all within the United States. The British Algonkins are as follows:-- 1. The _Crees_; of which the _Skoffi_ and _Sheshatapúsh_ of Labrador are branches. 2. The _Ojibways_;[73] falling into-- _a._ The _Ojibways Proper_, of which the _Sauteurs_ are a section. _b._ The _Ottawas_ of the River Ottawa. _c._ The original Indians of Lake _Nipissing_; important because it is believed that the form of speech called _Algonkin_, a term since extended to the whole class, was their particular dialect. They are now either extinct or amalgamated with other tribes. _d._ The _Messisaugis_, to the north of Lake Ontario. 3. The _Micmacs_ of New Brunswick, Gaspé, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and part of Newfoundland; closely allied to the-- 4. _Abnaki_ of Mayne, and the British frontier; represented at present by the _St. John's Indians_. 5. The _Bethuck_--the aborigines of Newfoundland. 6. The _Blackfoots_, consisting of the-- _a._ _Satsikaa_, or _Blackfoots Proper_. _b._ The _Kena_, or _Blood Indians_. _c._ The _Piegan_. To these must be added numerous extinct tribes.