The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and Manuscripts — John Shaqi
The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and ManuscriptsSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and Manuscripts
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Indians of North America
The languages of New Zealand, Tonga and Malay, have no declension of
nouns, nor conjugation of verbs. The purposes of declension are answered
by particles and prepositions. The distinctions of person, tense, and
mode, are expressed by adverbs, pronouns, and other parts of speech.
This rigidity of the verb and noun is absolute under every order of
arrangement, in which the words can be placed, and their meaning is not
helped out, by either prefixes or suffixes, as it is in the dialects of
the Algonquin and other North American languages.
NO. IV.
After stopping a day or more at Shawneetown, and reconnoitering its
vicinity, I proceeded to the mouth of the Cumberland, and from thence,
after many days detention at that point waiting for a boat, to the mouth
of the Ohio. I found this to be a highly interesting section of the
river, from its great expanse and its fine water prospects. The
picturesque calcareous cliffs on the west banks, display a novel and
attractive line of river scenery. The Ohio had, from its commencement,
well sustained the propriety of its ancient appellation of the Beautiful
River; but it here assumed something more than beautiful--it was
majestic. Let it be borne in mind that this stream, in the course of
some seven or eight hundred miles flow from Pittsburg to Shawneetown,
had been swelled on the right and left hand by the Scioto, the
Muskingum, the Kentucky, the Miami, Green River, Wabash, and other
rivers of scarcely inferior size. It is still further augmented, from
the left bank, with those noble tributaries, the Cumberland and
Tennessee, which bring in the gathered drain of the middle ranges of the
Alleghanies. It is below Shawneetown, too, that the cliffs of the
Cave-in-Rock-Coast present themselves on the west shore--with their
associations of the early robber-era which has been commemorated by the
pen of fiction of Charles Brockden Brown. These cliffs are cavernous,
and assume varied forms. They rise in bold elevations, which bear the
general name of the Knobs, but which are well worthy of the name of
mountains. Distinct from the interest they have by casting their
castle-like shadows, at sunset, in the pure broad stream, they
constitute a kind of Derbyshire in their fine purple spars, and
crystalized galena and other mineralogical attractions. I was told that
a German of the name of Storch, who pretended to occult knowledge, had,
years before, led money and mineral diggers about these Knobs, and that
he was the discoverer of the fine fluates of lime found here.
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