VIII. The Chemmesyan.—Spoken along the sea-coast and islands of north latitude 55°.
IX. The Billechula.—Spoken at the mouth of Salmon River; a language to which I have shown, elsewhere, that a vocabulary from Mackenzie's Travels of the dialect spoken at Friendly Village was referable.
X. The Hailtsa.—The Hailtsa contains the dialects of the sea-coast between Hawkesbury Island and Broughton's Archipelago, also those of the northern part of Vancouver's Island.
In Gallatin, the Chemmesyan, Billechula, and Hailtsa are all thrown in a group called Naas. The Billechula numerals are, certainly, the same as the Hailtsa; the remainder of the vocabulary being unlike, though not altogether destitute of coincidences. The Chemmesyan is more outlying still. I do not, however, in thus separating these three languages, absolutely deny the validity of the Naas family. I only imagine that if it really contain languages so different as the Chemmesyan and Hailtsa, it may also contain the Haidah and other groups, e. g. the one that comes next, or—
XI. The Wakash of Quadra and Vancouver's Island.
South of the Wakash area come, over and above the southern members of the Atna family and the Oregon outliers of the Athabaskan, the following groups, of value hitherto unascertained.
A. The Tshinuk, or Chinuk;
B. The Kalapuya;
C. The Jakon;—all agreeing in the harshness of their phonesis, and (so doing) contrasted with—