lds as an element of the Latin,"--

he could not have known that the same writer has, in the sixth volume of
the _Classical Museum_, continued the comparison at great length; and as
that work falls into the hands of but few, I shall transcribe some passages
which may throw light on the subject:

"It has for some years been recognised, at least by several English
scholars, that there is a remarkable similarity between the Celtic
languages and Latin. In the case of Welsh it was, I believe, at first
supposed that the words must have been introduced by the Roman dominion
in Britain; but when the likeness was found to exist in the Erse, and
that the Erse was even more like to Latin (as regards the consonants)
than the Welsh is, this idea of course fell to {358} the ground. The
scholar and physiologist, who pressed into notice the strong
similarities of the Celtic to the European languages, and claimed a
place for Celtic within that group, Dr. Prichard, has naturally fixed
his attention with so much strength on the _primitive_ relations of all
these tongues, as to be jealous and suspicious of an argument, which
alleges that the one has borrowed from the other. Some ten years ago,
by his favour, I read a MS. of a vocabulary (the composition of Dr.
Stratton, formerly of Aberdeen), which compared the Gaelic with the
Latin tongue in alphabetical order without comment or development. From
this vocabulary Prichard gives an extract in his chapter on the Italian
nations, and finds it entirely to confirm his views that the Roman
language has not suffered any larger admixture by a foreign action.
What is or was Dr. Stratton's opinion, I never heard. His vocabulary
first suggested to me the value of this inquiry, and that is all.
Having now been led to a fuller examination of the Welsh and Gaelic
dictionaries, I find not only a far greater abundance of material
(especially in the Welsh) than I could have imagined; but also, that by
grouping words aright, conclusions result such as I had not expected,
and adverse to those of Dr. Prichard."

Professor Newman, as T. H. T. has observed, confined himself to a tabular
view of Celtic and Latin words; but the grammatical structure and formal
development of the two languages have not been overlooked in the
philological literature of England. These interesting inquiries have been
pursued by Dr