k. The Babine Indians.
11. The Susi (Sussees).—On the head-waters of the Saskatchewan.
New Caledonia is the chief area of the Takulli.
Adjacent to them, but to the east of the Rocky Mountains, lie—
12. The Tsikani (Sicunnies).
The Athabaskan is the first class in our list; and, if we look only at the area which its population occupies, it is a great one. All the Athabaskan languages or dialects are mutually intelligible.
The Algonkins.—The second class is the Algonkin. It is greater in every way than the Athabaskan—greater in respect to the number of its divisions and subdivisions, greater in respect to the ground it covers, and greater in respect to the range of difference which it embraces. All the Algonkin languages are not mutually intelligible.
Unlike the Athabaskan the Algonkin stock is nearly equally divided between the United States and Great Britain.
Unlike, too, the Athabaskan, it is divided[228] between the Canadas and our other possessions and the Hudson's Bay territory.
The whole of the Canadas, with one small but important exception, the whole of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward's Isle, is Algonkin. Labrador and Newfoundland are chiefly Algonkin.