An unpublished and hitherto unknown work on the Mohegan language is the _Miscellanea Lingua Nationis Indica Mahikan dicta, curà scepta à Joh. Jac. Schmick_, 2 vols., small 8vo.; MS. in the possession of the American Philosophical Society. Schmick was a Moravian missionary, born in 1714, died 1778. He acquired the Mohegan dialect among the converts at Gnadenhütten. His work is without date, but may be placed at about 1765. It is grammatical rather than lexicographical, and offers numerous verbal forms and familiar phrases. [23] J. Bozman, _History of Maryland_, Vol. I, pp. 112, 114, 121, 177. This laborious writer still remains the best authority on the aboriginal inhabitants of Maryland. [24] "The We nuh tok o wuk are our brothers according to ancient agreement," _Journal of Hendrick Aupaumut_, _Mems. Hist, Soc. Pa._, Vol. II, P. 77. [25] Charles Beatty, _Journal of a Journey_, etc., p. 87. Heckewelder, _Indian Nations_, pp. 90, et seq. Ibid. _Trans. Am. Phil. Soc._, Vol. IV, p. 362. [26] The authorities for these facts are Bozman, _History of Maryland_, Vol. I, pp. 175-180; Heckewelder, _Indian Nations_, pp. 93, sqq.; E. de Schweinitz, _Life of Zeisberger_, pp. 208, 322, etc.; the Treaty Records, and MSS. in the library of the American Philosophical Society. That the Nanticokes came from the South into Maryland has been maintained, on the ground that as late as 1770 they claimed land in North Carolina. _New York Colonial Documents_, Vol. VIII, p. 243. But the term "Carolina" was, I think, used erroneously in the document referred to, instead of Maryland, where at that date there were still many of the tribe. [27] _History of the Indian Nations_, Introduction, p. xlii. [28] Ibid., pp. 90-122. [29] _Minutes of the Provincial Council of Penna._, Vol. IV, p. 657. Further proof of this in a Treaty of Peace concluded in 1682 by the New York colonial government, between the Senecas and Maryland Indians. In this instrument we find this tribe referred to as "the Canowes alias Piscatowayes," and elsewhere as the "Piscatoway of Cachnawayes." _New York Colonial Documents_, Vol. III, pp. 322, 323. [30] I am aware that Mr. Johnston, deriving his information from Shawnee interpreters, translated the name Kanawha, as "having whirlpools." (_Trans. of the Amer. Antiq. Soc._, Vol. I, p. 297.) But I prefer the derivation given in the text. [31] Lacombe, _Dictionnaire de la Langue des Cris_, s. v. In Delaware the root takes the form _pach_, from which are derived, by suffixes, the words _pach-at_, to split, _pachgeechen_, where the road branches off, _pachshican_, a knife = something that divides, etc. [32] _Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam_, p. 63. (Edition of the Md. Hist. Soc. 1874.) [33] See his _Journal_, published in Neill's _Founders of Maryland_ (Albany, 1876). Fleet was a prisoner among the Pascatoways for five years, and served as an interpreter to Calvert's colony.