The Micmac glories in being able to express an idea in several different ways; thus one may use feminine expressions or man-talk, he may speak vulgarly or refined,—he may even be classical ! Ask a Micmac his word for 'head' and he will give you munootc; but head in composition is invariably wdtp, as sesipd-wdtp, a bird's head; while I if I wish to inform you that I have a large head I say mag-dtpt, and for "my head is cold' I say kaootcdtpaootc, retaining the same root idea throughout. The word for snow is wdstaoo, but pdsdlc means 'it snows;' the wind is ooicusun; but if someone remarks that the wind blows, he uses the word wejoosuh, while if another asks, ' which way is the wind ?' his query is 't&me weluk ?' Examples might be multi¬ plied ad infinitum, until you are ready to admit the Micmac's exultant boast: " Always everything two ways me speakum !" It is to be remembered that one word may be used with various shades of meaning, and that no two men will wholly agree about either the exact use, or correct translation of many words and idiom¬ atic phrases ; Rand's attempt at grammatical arrangement included only the noun, pronoun and part of the verb; many statements, too, made in earlier pages of his manuscripts were contradicted, but not cancelled, after further study, as the manuscripts were necessarily left behind when he went about his work; hence the compiler has often had to discard and forget whole sections upon which he had spent hours of toil. Many words were compared, of which a few only can be given: taboo is two, L . duo, Fr. deux, katabai, I go down under water, cf. Gr. xaT<x(3aiva)) ait, he says cf. L ,. 'ait;' espum, I hear it, Gr. ETtGa' abe, Gr. aTtMj temsum, I cut it, Gr. TefAVa" kalosit .pretty, good, Gr. xaXkoq\ alea, I go, is almost identical with the • French aler; astoo, in the sunshine, cf. L . 'aestu'; obdoon, a rod, cf. Gr, pa(3oOV) nekoka, a spear, cf. Gr. axoxyjl koma, a harbour, cf. Gr. aS0)jU>7, a village, and note that villages and harbours are often associated. At least fifty as striking resemblances, though excluding atnomatapoetic words, are noted by Dr. Rand , and he was evidently of the opinion that both the Micmac language and mythology are- t related in no small degree to those of the Indo-European family.