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Show 187 fortuitous, and not based on real affinity. They cannot be thoroughly verified and sifted before we possess a sufficiency of reliable material, good grammars, and copious, accurate dictionaries of all these languages. The conclusions which can be safely drawn on the origin of the Pueblo Indians, from a purely linguistic standpoint, and an accurate scientific study of the material presently available, may be summed up in the following items: 1. The four groups of Pueblo languages in New Mexico and Arizona are languages originally independent of each other. 2. The three first groups do not show any marked and convincing affinities to other aboriginal tongues, although they have borrowed extensively from Athapascan, Yuma, and Shoshone languages. The fourth, or Moqui tongue, is so largely interwoven with Comanche and Kiowa words that a common origin must be admitted. 3. Affinities exist with the Dakota, Aztec, and Central American tongues; but they are too scanty to prove a common origin. The important affinities which all Pueblo vocabularies show with Kiowa, each of them in different words, prove that the Kiowas are a medley of roving tribes and Pueblo Indians, who probably gathered around a Comanche stock, and recruited themselves from other hunting tribes in whose vicinity they roved. 4. The polysyllabic nature of the Zufii words and their quinary counting system differ entirely from what we see io other Pueblo languages, and prompt us to look out for a distant, perhaps southern, relationship of this interesting tribe. The momentous problem, " Which countries have included the former seats of the Pueblo tribes prior to their settling down in the valley of the Bio Grande and the adjacent deserts t" cannnot, we think, be solved from purely linguistic data or apparent word- affinities. Archeology and ethnology are more apt to remove the veil which envelopes this mystery, for it can probably be cleared up only by a careful study of the migrations of the other American tribes. Linguistic researches seem to be in favor of a southern origin. Respectfully submitted. ALB. 8. GATSCHBT. Lieut. GEO. M. WHRKLER, Corp* of Engineers. APPENDIX K. PUBLICATIONS, MAPS, REPORTS, PHOTOGRAPHS. MAPS. At the close of the past fiscal year, a 2,000- copy photolithographic edition of the Topographical Atlas Sheets NOB. 50, 58, 59, and 66, together with several preliminary sheets, had been issued. All of this edition has been distributed during the year. A second 2,000- copy photolithographic edition of the same sheets has oeen ordered, increased by sheets Nos. 49, 57. 65, and 67. Authority has been granted and contracts executed for a 2,000- copy photolithographic edition of ten additional atlas- sheets; three upon a scale of 1 inch to 8 miles, the remainder to a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles. » Proofs have been received of Atlas Sheets 50, 58, 59, and 66, executed by the crayon- process at the establishment under Mr. Julius Bien, New York City, aud contracts entered into for Sheets 49 and 67, making a set of six connected sheets thus represented. Proof- sheets of four of the Geological Atlas Maps have been received, based upon such of the published Topographical Sheets as have been sufficiently surveyed geologically to warrant publication, and during the year originals of Sheets 49,67,75, and 83. have been added. The Lake Bonneville Chart is also in hand and approaches publication. The following topographical maps are in course of completion, or completed: On a ecale of 1 inch to 8 miles, Nos. 75, 76, 83, and portions of 77 and 84 ; on a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, Nos. 52 ( D), 53 ( C), 61 ( B), ( C), and ( D), 62 ( A) and ( C), 69 ( A), ( B), ( C), and ( D), 70( A) and ( C); also, a special map of the San Juan mining region, in Southwestern Colorado, upon a scale of 1 inch to 2 miles. The geographical work of the season of 1875 will comprise those portions of Nos. 77 ( B) and ( D), 78 ( A) and ( C), 72 ( B) and ( D), and 73 ( A), ( B), ( C), and ( D), that can be completely surveyed during the year; and, by the special party sent to the valley of the Colorado, detailed tonography, approaching its banks from near the foot of the " Grand Canon" to the " Needles," will be observed. There is a steadily- growing appreciation of the value of accurate geographical information of sections of country even so remote from the present loci or settlements as those visited by the several expeditions in my charge, evinced by the repeatedly-inereasiug calls ior maps and other publications of the survey. That the want of such accurate information will lead to further and more extensive application of the geo- |