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bear, following the retreat of the ice. It may suffice here to
remark that even in discussing the probability of the
suggestions the question about explaining the similarity or identity of
what we have called the «new words» in the different dialects
offers the same indispensable condition to be complied with as
in weighing the grounds of the other theories.
(9) STEMWORDS. In the above quoted article of the
Anthropological Institute’s Journal 1885 an approximate
calculation of the so called stemwords or radical words is tried.
The same has now been repeated, although the result must still
remain but imperfect on account of the defectiveness of our
sources. It gave: stemwords hitherto discovered, in Labrador
1153, Central regions 578, Mackenzie river 833, Extreme Western
and Asiatic 796. Of these supposed stemwords there are in
Labrador 998 common with those of Greenland, 107 differing,
and 48 uncertain, making relatively 87, 9 and 4 pr. Ct.; in the
other dialects comparatively to this: C. r. 524, 38, 16, making
90, 7 and 3 pr. Ct; M. r. 716, 60, 57, making 86, 7 and 7
pr. Ct.; E. W. & A.: 494, 137, 165, making 62, 17 and 21 pr. Ct.
Eor Greenland itself is still computed 1371, although some
might have been added as concerning East Greenland, while on
the other hand perhaps some might have been rejected. As
to the other dialects many of those which, in the former
statement, were counted as uncertain have now been left out as too
dubious, or at least not representing other radical words than
those already counted. This especially refers to the Mackenzie
vocabulary, which may be said, without failing to appreciate
the worth which its richness in words has to us in other respects.
(10) POLYSYNTHETISM. In the «Compte rendu» of the
«Congrès des Americanists" in Copenhagen 1883, the well
known French linguist Lucien Adam communicates a lecture
delivered by him on the Eskimo language compared with the
other North American and with the Uralo-Altaic languages. He
arrives at the conclusion that the Eskimo can not be classed
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