498 Rev. Mr Wruurams on one Source of the 
words are Celtic, and individually recognizable, but their mean- 
ing, when strung into sentences, requires an Gipirus. In con. 
firmation of this, I appeal to the various attempts which profess 
to be translations of the Gododin of Angurtn. With the 
Anglo-Saxon literature, both for its antiquity and extent, the 
best representative of the ancient Teutonic, I do not profess an 
accurate acquaintance. Ihave read much of it, and have studied 
its vocabulary and grammar with care, but cannot call myself an 
Anglo-Saxon scholar. To a general knowledge of the modern 
languages of the south-west of Europe, I can add a slight ac- 
quaintance with the Gaelic and Basque tongues. 
In a course of study thus followed up, with occasional excur- 
sions into other paths of knowledge, for more than twenty years, 
it has been my fortune to make, as I conceive, some important 
discoveries. Had I the command of the requisite time, they 
might be embodied in one great work, but as that is not the case, 
I willingly avail myself of the medium of this Society, in order 
to communicate some detached fragments to those who take an 
interest in such studies. I confine myself, on the present occa- 
sion, to the subject of the original population of central Italy, 
and to the question which I intend to affirm, that it was of the 
Cumrian or Cimbrian race, cognate with the Cumri of our island, 
and that their language formed some portion of the non-Hellenic 
elements of the Latin tongue. ‘To pave the way for this, I pro- 
pose to show that the Umbri, an ancient people of Italy, were of 
the same race and lineage with those who within our islands call 
themselves Cumri, and that they, through their colonies, formed 
no small part of the original population of Rome.’ We are told 
by Frorus, “ that the Umbri were the most ancient people of 
‘Tt is my intention to write the words as they sound to the ear, not as they appear 
disguised in the modern spelling of the Welsh, a spelling which has done more to 
throw the language into obscurity, and render its very appearance disgusting to the 
eye of a civilized man, than all other causes put together. It not only has done this, 
but has absolutely served to render it more abstruse to the Cumri themselves. The 
vowel w, equal in power to the double o in wood, I shall retain, and ii with two points 
