are seen in the universality of one series of names throughout the whole ancient and modern Aryan languages of Asia and Europe. But the Basque numerals bear little or no resemblance to either, unless such can be traced in the _bi_, “two,” and the _sei_, “six,” as in the _assem_, “ten” (_decem_), of the old Hochelaga, the _ahsen_ of the later Wyandots. The _ehun_ of the Basque has also its remote, and probably accidental resemblance; but the _milla_, “one thousand,” is certainly borrowed, and serves to show that the higher numerals, with the evidence they afford of advancing civilisation, were the result of intrusive Aryan influences in the natives of the Iberian peninsula. With the growing tendency to turn to the prehistoric Iberians of Europe for one possible key to the origin of the races and languages of America, it is well to keep this test in view for comparison with the widely varying native numerals. But the correspondence is slight, even with probable Turanian congeners. One Biscayan form of “three,” _hirun_, is not unlike the Magyar _harom_; while the _eyg_, “one,” of the latter, seems to find its counterpart in the inseparable particle that transforms the Basque radical _ham_, “ten,” into the _hamaika_, “eleven.” But such fragmentary traces are in striking contrast to the radical agreement of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Slavonic, and Teutonic numerals. Mr. Hale has drawn my attention to the curious manner in which the names of the first five Hochelaga numerals in Cartier’s list are contracted and strengthened in the modern Wyandot; and some of the modifications in the Iroquois dialects are no less interesting. _Secata_, the Hochelaga “one,” survives in the Onondaga _skadah_, while it becomes _skat_ in the modern Huron, the Cayuga, and the Seneca. But in the compounded form of the Wyandot “one hundred,” _skatamendjawe_, as in the Onondaga _skadahdewennyachweh_, the terminal _a_ reappears. _Tigneny_, the old form of “two,” is abridged and strengthened to _tendi_; _asche_, “three” (originally, in all probability, _aschen_, or, as still in use by the Hurons of Lorette, _achin_), survives as _ahsunh_ or _ahsenh_ in nearly all the Iroquois dialects, including the Tuscarora. In the Nottoway it is still discernible in the modified _arsa_. The exceptions are the Seneca, where it becomes _sen_, while one Wyandot form is _shenk_; which reappears in the Seneca compounded form of “thirty,” _shenkwashen_. _Honnacon_, “four,” loses both its initial and terminal syllables, and becomes _dak_ in the Wyandot, and _keih_ or _kei_, an abbreviation of the Mohawk _kayerih_, in the Cayuga and the Seneca dialects. The ancient form of “five,” _ouiscon_, has partially survived in the Huron _ouisch_. It becomes _wisk_, _whisk_, _wish_, or (in the Seneca) _wis_, in all the Iroquois dialects,—the Wyandot and Cayuga once more agreeing in form. The _ayaga_, “seven,” of the old Hochelaga, nearly resembles the _jadah_