The Myth Hiawatha - And Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians #260442

If Edwards the younger, to whom the Mohican was fami liar from his childhood, could say, that he doubted whether there were any true adjectives in that language, it can easily be imagined that the subtlety of the transitive principle had not been sufficiently analyzed but the remark is here quoted in relation to the paucity of adjectives.