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Aubèry has aggimin, an anchorage. It goes curiously with John Smiths accominticus [first letter i underlined], which, the -min-, always seemed queer to me. The only -ticus I remember near here is in Papaquntiquash at Greenfield. It is a little squirt of a stream close to some parallel islands in the main Connecticut. I reckon these Conn. R. names nearer the Penobscot than ours farther east are, & I'm not raising any trouble about -ticus as little river.
It wouldn't be strange if you were at some loss to know what to do with the Rand MicMac. It makes a heathenish dialect to settle to. For a long time I couldn't get any good at all of it, yet the last year or two it has been a good help. What bothers me about Nudenas [?] is the things he hasn't got. Those missionaries! What I was hoping about the Stanislaus was that if you got up there you would bag some meaning while you were at it.
Very Sincerely
W. B. C.
Aubèry has aggimin, an anchorage. It goes curiously with John Smiths accominticus [first letter i underlined], which, the -min-, always seemed queer to me. The only -ticus I remember near here is in Papaquntiquash at Greenfield. It is a little squirt of a stream close to some parallel islands in the main Connecticut. I reckon these Conn. R. names nearer the Penobscot than ours farther east are, & I'm not raising any trouble about -ticus as little river.
It wouldn't be strange if you were at some loss to know what to do with the Rand MicMac. It makes a heathenish dialect to settle to. For a long time I couldn't get any good at all of it, yet the last year or two it has been a good help. What bothers me about Nudenas [?] is the things he hasn't got. Those missionaries! What I was hoping about the Stanislaus was that if you got up there you would bag some meaning while you were at it.
Very Sincerely
W. B. C.
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