Snow stahae kowa towat. Earth ptsah wihih caput. River tauh wōl gawichat. Tree yah tshoo tanaek. Meat colahntha wintsé hosing. Bear ptsaka tso kohp solang. Bird psenna shankolt washang. Fish potshoo henn aesut. White quecah hahap testaga. Black ishpe tsokokop hatoua. Red tshulhuh pahkop pechasat. He coheetha akoonikia (this here) nassicon. One sāh witahu nancas. Two nowāh ahwetie nass. Three nokah nayetie colle. Four taltlah ganooetie tacache. Five chwanhah shpedee seppacan. Six chtoo lahono pacanancus. Seven latchoo ukwoh pacaness. Eight peefah upkutepish pacalcon. Nine 'tah'thkah wedipkatepish sickinish. Ten 'tthklahpee ōkwah neusne. Furthermore, had the two other conterminous languages of the Attacapas and the Chetimachas been added, the difference between the _five_ would have been just the same as that between the _three_, _i. e._, they would have all differed from each other, as much as the Natchez and Uché, the Uché and Adahi, the Adahi and Natchez differ. This is a fair measure of the _glossarial_ separation between contiguous languages as determined by what may be called the _simple comparison_ (_inspection_ or _collation_) of vocabularies; and it is by no means strange that, such being the case, writers should have regarded it with something approaching to surprise. I am not aware that much has been done to bring down this feeling to a reasonable limit; a result which might easily have been brought about by one or both of the two following processes. _a._ The value of the mere simple comparison of vocabularies may be tested by seeing what would be the result of placing side by side two languages known to be undoubtedly, but also known to be not very closely, allied. Such, for instance, might be the German and Greek, the Latin and Russian, the English and Lithuanic, all of which are Indo-European, and all of which, when placed in simple juxtaposition, by no means show themselves in any very palpable manner as such. This may be seen from the following table, which is far from being the first which the present writer has compiled; and that with the special view of ascertaining by induction (and not _a priori_) the value of comparisons of the kind in question.