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an Inquiry into its Authenticity. pp. 262. Illustrated. Philadelphia, 1885. 18. Lenape Conversations. In _American Journal of Folk-Lore_, Vol. I. 19. The Shawnees and their Migrations. In _American Historical Magazine_, January, 1866. 20. The Chief God of the Algonkins, in his Character as a Cheat and Liar. In the _American Antiquarian_, May, 1885. 21. On certain supposed Nanticoke words shown to be of African origin. _American Antiquarian_, 1887. 22. Vocabulary of the Nanticoke dialect. Proceedings of the _American Philosophical Society_, November, 1893. 23. The Natchez of Louisiana, an Offshoot of the Civilized Nations of Central America. In the _Historical Magazine_ (New York), for January, 1867. 24. On the Language of the Natchez. In _Proceedings_ of the American Philosophical Society, December, 1873. 25. Grammar of the Choctaw Language. By the Rev. Cyrus Byington. Edited from the original MS. by D. G. Brinton. pp. 56. In _Proceedings_ of the American Philosophical Society, 1870. 26. Contributions to a Grammer[TN-2] of the Muskokee Language. In _Proceedings_ of the American Philosophical Society, March, 1870. 27. The Floridian Peninsula, its Literary History, Indian Tribes, and Antiquities. 8vo, cloth, pp. 202. Philadelphia, 1859. 28. The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary. A deception exposed. In _American Antiquarian_, March, 1885. 29. The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary. A reply to M. Lucien Adam. In _American Antiquarian_, September, 1885. Within the area of the United States, my articles have been confined practically to two groups, the Algonkian dialects and those spoken in Florida and the Gulf States. The Delaware Indians or Lenni Lenape, who occupied the valley of the Delaware River and the land east of it to the ocean, although long in peaceful association with the white settlers, were never studied, linguistically, except by the Moravian missionaries, in the latter half of the eighteenth century. In examining the MSS. in the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Pa., I discovered a MS. dictionary of their tongue, containing about 4,300 words. This I had carefully copied, and induced a native Delaware, an educated clergyman of the English Church, the Rev. Albert Seqaqkind Anthony, to pass a fortnight at my house, going over it with me, word by word. The MS.
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