Chapter VI: THE COPEH.--How far this will eventually turn out to be a

convenient name for the group (or how far the group itself will be real), is uncertain. A vocabulary in Gallatin from the Upper Sacramento, and one from Mag Readings (in the south of Shasti county) in Schoolcraft, belong to the group.

Mag Readings is on the upper third of the Sacramento--there or thereabouts.

ENGLISH. COPEH. M. R. INDIAN. U. SACR.

_man_ pehtluk winnoke ----
_woman_ muhlteh dokke ----
_head_ buhk pok ----
_hair_ tiih tomi tomoi.
_eye_ sah chuti tumut.
_nose_ kiunik ---- tsono.
_mouth_ kohl ---- kal.
_teeth_ siih shi ----
_beard_ chehsaki khetcheki ----
_arm_ sahlah ---- keole.
_hand_ semh shim tsemut (_fingers_).
_foot_ mai'h mat ktamoso.
_blood_ sahk chedik ----
_sun_ sunh tuku sas.
_wind_ toudi kleyhi ----
_rain_ yohro luhollo ----
_snow_ yohl yola ----
_fire_ poh pau po.
_water_ mehm mem mem.
_earth_ kirrh kosh ----

In the paper of No. 134 the import of a slight amount of likeness between the Upper Sacramento vocabulary and the Jakon is overvalued. The real preponderance of the affinities of the group taken in mass is that which its geographical position induces us to expect _à priori_. With the Shasti, &c. the Copeh has the following words in common:--

ENGLISH. COPEH. SHASTI, ETC.

_head_ buhk uiak, S.
_hair_ teih tiyi, P.
_teeth_ siih itsa, P.
_ear_ maht _mu_-mutsh, L.
_eye_ sah asu, P.
_foot_ mat pats, L.
_sun_ sunh tsul, P.
_thou_ mih mai, S.

and, probably, others.

The Copeh is spoken at the head of Putos Creek.

Observe that the Copeh for _water_ is _mem_, as it is in the languages of the next group, which we may provisionally call--