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Memoii'es de 1' Academic Imperiale des Sciences de St Peters- 



bourg, (Sciences Matheraatiques et Physiques). Tome i. 



Livr. 1, 2. 

 Do. do. ( Sciences Politiques, &c.) Tome ii., liv. 6 ; et tome 



iii. liv. 1. 

 Do. do. (Memoires presentes pars divers Savans). Tome ii. 



Livrs. 4, 5, et 6. 

 Recueil des Actes de la Seance publique de 1' Academic Imperiale 



des Sciences de St Petersbourg, tenue le 29. Decembre 1834. 



— From (he Imperial Academy. 



The following Papers were read : 

 1. On the Non-Hellenic portion of the Latin Language. By 

 the Venerable Arclideacon Williams. 



The line of argument went to shew, that the Umbri were one of 

 the most ancient nations of Italy. That they, through their colonies 

 or entire tribes, entered deeply into the composition of the primi- 

 tive population of Rome. That, according to ancient authorities, 

 these Umbri were the descendants of the " Veteres Galli." That 

 these Veteres Galli were of the same race and blood as the present 

 Cumbri of Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany. That hence it is pro- 

 bable, that the ancient language still preserved among these may 

 have entered easily into the composition of the language of the Ro- 

 mans. That the names of rivers, mountains, cities, lakes, districts, 

 &c. in central Italy, and in all the countries over which the Sabel- 

 lian tribes, and their cognate race the Veneti, diffused themselves, 

 is likely to convert this probability into certainty. That the ques- 

 tion concerning the ancient population of Italy has never yet been 

 satisfactorily treated ; that it never can be, unless the examiner is 

 well acquainted not only with the language, but also the literature 

 of Greece and Rome, and with at least one type or form of the se- 

 veral Teutonic and Celtic languages. That a slight acquaintance 

 ■with other forms is also very desirable. That the writer professes 

 to be conversant with Greek, Roman, and Cumbrian literature, and 

 to a certain extent with the Anglo-Saxon, and that he knows some- 

 thing of the Gaelic and Basque tongues. That no examination of 

 indexes can avail, owing to the peculiar character of the Cumbrian 

 tongue, in which a person ignorant of the principles of its grammar 

 might suspect that there was nothing fixed, while, on the contrary, 

 -it is the most fixed and indestructible of all languages. That the 

 vocabularies of the Latin and Cumbrian languages are strikingly si» 



