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with it satisfactorily in a brief treatise, as volumes might be written upon it ; indeed, it would require a large volume to deal comprehen- sively with a single Micmac verb. Bishop Baraga in his Otchipwe Grammar devotes twenty-eight pages to paradigms of the verb (nind) ikkii. I say; remarking that many of the participles have no corres- ponding form in English, it being necessary to use instead relative pronouns with roundabout phrases. Dr. Rand never erased a state- ment to the effect that there are no participles in Micmac; to him they seemed all adjectives, when he began the study of the language; though he copied without comment a contrary statement from Irwin, whose Outlines of Micmac Grammar was published in the Prince Edward Island Royal Gazette, and is supposed to be based upon original work done by the abbe Legoyne, of Claire, N. S. In it verbs are designated thus :—Active, Passive, Middle or Reflexive, Intermediate or Inter- locutory, Impersonal or Unipersonal, Substantival, Traus-substautival, Adj ectival, Mental and Neuter—a comprehensive classification, though he omits to mention the generally accepted divisions under Transi- tive and Intransitive, which end in 00 and adegd.

ACTIVE VERBS consist of four groups :—[a] COMMON, with nom- inatives of the animate gender, and accusatives either animate or in- animate. Dr. Rand calls these the fundamental verbs, as the others are derived from them ; the termination is (2 or adcgd as in kesalood, I love, and nemedegd I see. [b] RELATIVE AcrrvE,—are, firstly those whose nominatives are animate and accusatives are inanimate, of which there are two conjugations, one ending in um as nestum, I understand it, and one ending in 00 as nemadoo, I see it; Relative Active verbs are, secondly, those whose nominatives and accusatives are both of the animate gender, as neslool, I understand thee, nemoal I see thee, nemak, I see him, and nemz’jz'k, I see them. (c) Active Verbs governing two cases,——the subject being animate, the direct object inanimate, and the indirect object either animate or inanimate or both, as nemedool, I see it of yours, nemal, I see (the point) of it. ((1) Active Verbs having the nominative inanimate and the accusa- tive animate, as nemék, it sees me; kesenoogwi/é, it strikes me.

Passive Verbs (or rather the passive voice of verbs) are marked by