[135] Letter xi., p. 276.
[136] It should be properly Tortoise; but this word seems in a fair way to be entirely superseded by Turtle, as well in England as in this country.
[137] Chippewäisch-Delawarischer, oder Algonkisch-Moheganischer, Stamm. Mithrid., part III., vol. iii., p. 337.
[138] Vater in Mithrid., part III., vol. 3, p. 283, quotes De Laet, Novus Orbis, pp. 98, 103, Du Pratz, vol. 2, pp. 208, 9, Rochefort, Histoire Natur. des Antilles, pp. 351, 394, and Hervas, Catologo delle Lingue, p. 90; none of which works I have it in my power to consult.
[139] Mithrid., ibid.
[140] Loskiel, part I., ch. 1.
[141] Duvallon, Vue de la Colonie Espagnole du Mississippi, quoted by Vater, in Mithrid., ibid., p. 297.
[142] The Bibliotheca Americana records 45 grammars and 25 dictionaries of the languages spoken in Mexico only, and 85 works of different authors on religious and moral subjects written or translated into some of those languages.
[143] For “or” read “nor.”
[144] For “met” read “saw.”