On the other hand, it should be added that if, irrespective of such criticism, the Otomi language be, in its vocables, wholly un-American, the evidence in favour of its philological isolation is just as good as if, over and above the fact of its being monosyllabic, the transition from monosyllabicism to polysyntheticism were a philological impossibility; still more so, if its affinities are with any other language, e.g. the Chinese.

Now, upon this point I have made three series of comparisons.

1. The Otomi with the Seriform languages, en masse.

2. The same words from another American language (the Maya) with the same Seriform languages.

3. The Otomi and a variety of other American languages.

Of these the first two are as follows:—

(1)

(2)