_English_, goose Adahi, _nickkuicka_ Chetimacha, _napiche_ Ilinois, _nicak_ Ojibbeway, _nickak_ Delaware, _kaak_ Shawnoe, _neeake_ _English_, duck Adahi, _ahuck_ Eskimo, _ewuck_ _English_, fish Adahi, _aesut_ Cherokee, _atsatih_ _English_, tree Adahi, _tanaek_ Dacota, _tschang_ Ilinois, _toauane_ Miami, _tauaneh_=_wood_ _English_, grass Adahi, _hasack_ Chikkasaw, _hasook_ Choctah, _hushehuck_ Uché, _yahsuh_=_leaf_ Chikkasaw, _hishe_=_do._ _English_, deer Adahi, _wakhine_ Uché, _wayung_ _English_, squirrel Adahi, _enack_ Sack and Fox, _aneekwah_ Nanticoke, _nowckkey_ Abenaki, _anikesses_ Knistenaux, _annickochas_ _English_, old Adahi, _hansnaie_ Caddo, _hunaisteteh_ Nottoway, _onahahe_ _English_, good Adahi, _awiste_ Dacota, _haywashta_ Yancton, _washtai_ _English_, I Adahi, _nassicon_ Cherokee, _naski_ _English_, kill Adahi, _yoeick_ Caddo, _yokay_ Catawba, _eekway_ _English_, two Adahi, _nass_ Algonkin, &c., _nis, ness, nees_ Now the Adahi is so far from being a singular instance of an American language having miscellaneous affinities that there are not half-a-dozen vocabularies for either North or South America for which I have not similar lists.[138] Such is the imperfect sketch of my reasons for believing that any statement which places the glossarial differences between the American languages, as ascertained by the simple inspection of their vocabularies, so high as to involve the idea of a unique and unparalleled philological phænomenon is an _over_-statement. In thus limiting the extent of a remarkable characteristic I am not denying its existence. That the difference, even when cut down to its proper dimensions, is still more considerable than the usual investigations of philologists prepare them to expect, is shown by the necessity (which I freely admit) of resorting in America to the indirect method of comparison, where in many (perhaps most) other parts of the world, simple collation would suffice. Why is this? The following facts help us to an answer--fragmentary and partial though it be. _The paucity of general terms._--What shall we say to a language where a term sufficiently _general_ to denote an oak-tree is exceptional; a language where the _white-oak_ has one _specific_ name, the _black-oak_ another, the _red-oak_ a third, and so? Yet such is the ease with the Choctah;[139] where, _a fortiori_, the still more _general_ name for _tree_ is more exceptional still. This is the case with a noun. Verbs, however, are equally _specialized_. Where we in England talk of _fishing_, the Eskimo has a distinct name for every _mode of fishing_; and this is only part and parcel of the system which "designates with a peculiar name animals _of the same species_ according to their age, sex, or form." This is a character, which, though illustrated from two languages, is common to all the American ones.