240 PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 



Mauritanian. TheTurdetan of Spain, before mentioned, may have 

 been mixed with Semetic. 



The living languages of Gomerian origin, the Welsh, Gaelic, 

 Irish, Maux, Cornubian, Armorican or Bas Breton ; perhaps 

 even the Koubal of Morocco, the Romanche, the Waldensic, the 

 Illyrian, and even a part of the Wallon he viewed as combina- 

 tions more or less pure of the more ancient dialects, still more 

 adulterated by the Roman Latin, the Prankish, the Anglo Saxon 

 and the Norsk, together with the addition of numerous words 

 expressing new wants and ideas, and later terms of religion, art, 

 and science. The polished Helenic or classical Greek, derived 

 from the Pelasgian, he said, was deeply fraught with forms and 

 words of Scythic origin on one side, and with a poetical and 

 scientific superstructure of Semitic origin on the other. So 

 also the oldest Latin, composed of Volscian and Rutulian 

 Celto-Scythic, combined with Etruscan and Thraco Pelasgic, 

 Oscan and Umbrian, gradually changed its character, so that in 

 the time of the Empire, the hymns of the reigns of the ancient 

 kings had become totally unintelligible. The present Romaic or 

 modern Greek, the Southern dialects of Slavonic, the French and 

 English, are still, he stated, indebted to the ancient Gomerian 

 for many words, and even the Flemish and Low-German are not 

 entirely without proper names and terms, derived from this 

 ancient parent of the tongues of Europe. 



PLYMOUTH; PRINTED BY G. P. HEARDER. 



