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derivative from the latter, the only merit, which would be conceded 

 by those etymologists to Roman greatness, they would ascribe to a 

 dogmatical Celtic descent ! 



As Lhuyd's comparative etymology is a scarce book, the curious 

 reader will pardon the following extracts ; from which he may judge 

 of the extrarodinary abundance of derivatives in each of those Celtic 

 dialects on the subjects of our enquiry. 



•* I have chosen this sign .i^. to denote addition, in preference to the algebraical mark -j^ ; 

 as that of multiphcation x i often occurring in the same word,so nearly resembles the former. 



