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in historical investigations, and showed how some of the most 

 remarkable epochs of chronology might be traced by the variations 

 of language. 



He deprecated the prevailing system of adopting Greek, Latin, 

 French, and other phrases into our language in an unmodified form, 

 and showed that all such exotic terms as phenomena, indices, strata, 

 mania, chef d'oeuvre, proj^t, &c. &c. &c., might be easily supplied 

 by equivalent terms of native growth. lie also recommended the 

 usage of words of Anglo-Saxon derivation in preference to those 

 derived from classical sources, and pointed out the facilities afforded 

 by our mother tongue for compounding new forms of expression, 

 as circumstances might require. 



The lecturer also brought before the society, some proposed 

 alterations in orthography, and advocated the principle of assimila- 

 ting the spelling as nearly as possible to the pronunciation. He 

 pointed out many inaccuracies of style in modem authors of 

 considerable reputation, and from an application of Cobbett's 

 principles of composition as laid down in his English Grammar, 

 proved that author's deficiency in clearness of construction. The 

 lecture concluded by some observations, tending to show the 

 importance of a knowledge of the Classical, and Northern languages, 

 and especially of the Anglo-Saxon, to a critical and philosophical 

 acquaintance with the English. 



ANTWERP. 



Antwerp is a fine old city. It is impossible to enter 

 through an ancient gateway into its narrow streets, 

 bounded by lofty houses, with their high gable ends 

 or pediments of several stories of windows, and ascend- 

 ing by steps on each side to a point, without being 

 attracted by their grotesque but, at the same time, 

 picturesque appearance. Indeed their novel and fan- 

 ciful shapes are much more attractive than the more 

 recent and wider streets, with their more spacious 

 houses, many of which are not inferior to any that are 

 met with in London. 



The Rue de la Mer, which had formerly a canal 

 down the middle, like those which are generally met 

 with in a Dutch town, but is now filled up, appears to 



