The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25


 among his people,"
 or the iroqroian group, the Huron tribe i most resembled the CherolSees in lam l guage and customs, and much valuable in
 formation upon the subject can be found l m paper read al a meeting of ,se l American Association for tine Advance
 ment of Science, beld at Montreal, Can
 ada, in August. 1882, entitled "Indian l migration, as evidenced by language
 comprising the Huron Cherokee stock l the Dakota stock. the Algonuuins, the 1 Chahta-M -Musolli stock, the Moundbuild-
 CTS, the Iberians,n by Horatio Hale NJ A. printed in the American Antiqua-
 rian' for January and April, 1883. Mir
 Hale is very distinguished man, being
 the author of '"The Ethnography and l Philology of the United States Exploring ;, Expedition and his writings are dis
 cussed by the oldest and most learned 1 societies in the United States. Mexico
 South America and Europe, and by the Authropoogical Institute of Great Britain
 and Ireland, in the city of London. Information of surprising value in the
 works of Benjamin Hawkins, who, ac- eording to Fields Essay, page l62, was for more than 30 years employed by the government of the United States in it's intercourse with the Indians. He was styled by the Creeks. Choctaws Chicka- saws and Cherokees the Beloved Man of the Four Nations. He wrote eight vol umes of material relating to the history of the various Indians with whom he ! treated. These volumes are filled with details of treaties He also prepared a vocabulary of the Creek, Chicl1asaw, Cherokee and Choctaw languages. The manuscript of this work is in the library of the American Philosophical society, presented by President Thomas Jeffer- son.
 And in the Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, up to the first set tlement therein by the white people in the year 176s. by John Haywood of the coun- ty of Davidson in the state of Tennes- see, printed in Nashville by George Will son, 1923 Lingual affintles and hebra- 1sms of the Cherokees, pages PSI and 2S2; . vocabulary of the Cherokees, pages 2S2 to 1 2So; copies in the Congressional Library and British Museum. This book is so rare that a copy of it now sells for s100. The Cheroki (meaning Cherol1ee) an Iro- quoan language; a critical study and comparison of etymologies. words, nouns, sentence-wordsN (predicates), phrase words (nouns in oblique cases) and con jugatsons common to the Cherokian and lroquoian tongues; prepared for the pur- pose of placing the Iroquoian affinity of this language beyond question, and for its proper classification on the linquistic map now in preparation by the Bureau of Ethnoogy: manuscript written in July. 1887, by John N. B. Hewitt, and now in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington.
 Of all the Indian tribes in the south. l the Cherokees alone are especially men toned in the great work by Hon. Albert Gallatin. entitled "A synopsis of the In- dian tribes within the United States east of the Rocky mountains and in the Brit 1 ish and Russian possessions in North America In American Antiquarian so. ciety translations (Archeologia Ameri- canaD, volume g. page 422 Cambridge, 1886. So great an authority as Robert Gordon Lathem. NJ. A, M. D., fellow of the Royal society, fellow of Kings col lege, Cambridge, professor of English in 1 University college, London, and assistant physician at the Middlesex hospital, pre- pared a number of articles which ap peared in the publications of the Ethno- logical and Pathological Societies of Lon don, Edinburg, and Leipzig, Germany, in the year 1860, also Addenda and Corri- genda, pages 379 to AT, containing much linguistic material not appearing in any of the former articles, in which much in- teresting information bearing upon the Iroquoian group. and the singular fact of one of it's most important members. the Cherokees being resident in the far distant south Is discussed at great length, and in which, also, many words in Iro 1 quois, Seneca, Mohawk and Cherokee are. compared in order to more fully demon- strate their unity. Copies of these pub lcations can be seen in the Astor and Boston Public Libraries, Congressional Library and Bureau of Ethnology. In volume entitled '"rhe History of the American Indians. particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, east and west Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina and Virginia, containing an account of their origin, language. ri1rf cto laws, form of government punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agricure, manufactures, dis eases and method of cure, and other par ticulars sufficient to render it complete Indian system; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, mis- sionaries, etc., also an appendix contain ing a description of the Floridas and the Mississippi lands, with their productions the benefits of colonizing Georgiana and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country; with a new map of the country referred to in the history, by James Adair, Esq. trader with the In- dians and resident in their country for 40 years.'' printed in London in the year 1775; also a German translation at Bres- lan in the year 1T82; copies now very rare, but can be seen in Astor, Bancroft Boston Atneneum, BrltlSn Museum, Con gressicnal Library, Massachusetts Histor- ical society. He speaks of their language and dialects, their manner of counting time, their choice of names adapted to their circumstances, etc. and gives a vivid and interesting description of all that large area traversed by him, and details of the home life, habits and pecu- liarities of it's native inhabitants. It will be observed that he uses the pioneer word "Georgiana," which we now spell Georgia. The "Mississppi lands doubt less referred to the territory now com prised in the states of Alabama and Mis- sissippi. The work attracted widespread attention and led to investigation of the country he described In "Antiquties of Mexico" volume 8, printed in London in the year 1S4S pages 27S to 375. contains arguments of Adair's work. followed by Notes and Illustrations to Adairs His tory of the North American Indian" by Lord Kingsborough. which occupies pages from 375 to 400. Another argument by Adair, pages 205 to /311; still another, pages 311 to 314 and last of all, pages 363 and 364.
 It should be explained that the term Argument is what we now call a de- scriptive article or statement. and for il- lustration, that portion of Adairs book devoted to the languages is styled argu- ment; the same with his account of their customs, etc., etc.. and not at all intend ed to mean that the truth of his state ments were argued or disputed, and many of the learned societies of Great Britain and the continent of Europe accepted his book as valuable addition to the liter ature of its class. Appearing during the period of the American Revolution it was read with increased interest and after