3. Squier omits the word _elumamek_. These terms are formal epithets applied to the highest divinity. See page 158. Squier also adds that Fig. 3 represents the sun, and is the symbol of the Great Spirit. Both these statements are incorrect. The oval is the earth-plain, with its four cardinal points, and the dot in the centre signifies the spirit. See Copway, p. 135. 4. _Sohalawak_ is not a Delaware form, but is a true Algonkin word, as seen in the Cree _ooseh-ayoo_, animate, _ooseh-taw_, inanimate, he, it, makes, produces. (Howse, _Cree Grammar_, p. 166.) It appears in the Shawnee _w'shellaqua_, quoted in notes to verse 2; in the Minsi dialect the corresponding word is _kwishelmawak_; _owak_ is a mistake for _woak_, and Rafinesque translates it "much air." _Awasagamak_, heaven, sky, literally, "the land or place beyond," from _awossi_, beyond; but Dr. Trumbull prefers a derivation from a root signifying "light," _Del. waseleu_, it is clear or bright (Trans. Am. Philol. Soc., 1872, p. 164); this latter appears to me overstrained. The symbol is the earth surmounted by the sky. 5. The symbol represents the sun, moon and stars in the sky, which is repeated with change of relative positions in the next verse. In Minsi, the fifth line would read, _Kwishelmawak kischohk nipahenk alankwewak_. 7. On the termination _wagan_ see page 101. The prefix _ksh_, properly _k'sch_, is intensive, as it is an abbreviation of _kitschi_, great, large. Thus _sokelan_, it rains, _k'schilan_, it rains very hard. The symbol seems to indicate the waters flowing off. 8. Mr. Anthony renders this line in Minsi:-- _Pilikin_ _ameni-menayen_ _epit_, Grew-clean groups of islands where they are, That is, that the islands rose dry and clean from the water, as they now are found. _Delsin-epit_; the first part of this compound, properly _w'dell-sinewo_, is the indicative present, 3d p. pi., of _lissin_, to be thus, or so situated; _epit_ is what Zeisberger (_Gram._ p. 115) calls the "adverbial" form of _achpin_, to be there, in a particular place. This adverbial is really the suppositive form of the verb, after the vowel-change has taken place. (See above, page 107.) Former renderings of the line are: "It looks bright, and islands stood there" (Rafinesque). "All was made bright, and the islands were brought into being" (Squier). The symbol is a three cornered point of land, rising above the water under the sky. 9. _Manito manitoak_, "made the makers'," Raf.; "made the Great Spirits," Squier. Either of these renderings is defensible, as will appear from the senses of _manito_, above given. This line can be read in Minsi, _Lapi-up Kehtanitowit man'ito mani'towak_, Again-he-spake, Great-Spirit, a spirit, spirits. The symbol represents the communion of the spirits. Compare Tanner, _Narrative_, p. 359, fig. 24.