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Milton therefore is sufficiently justified in his use 
of gloriosissimus, however superlatives may be ap- 
plied; on which subject I can say nothing. 
Ido not find antmosus ever used in a good sense. 
But we want an index of terminations to assist us 
in such inquiries. I suspect that in the Latin lan- 
guage, as in ours, and I suppose all others, many 
words which had originally a good sense have 
changed gradually into a bad one,—‘a good man’, 
‘an honest fellow’, ‘an innocent girl’, ‘a good sort 
of a woman’, ‘a good-natured man’, are examples. 
But a remarkable instance is the word wench, 
which originally signified a young unmarried lady. 
In Piers Plowman the Virgin Mary is so called. 
I am, dear Sir, with great esteem, 
Your very faithful Friend and Servant, 
Tuo. Martyn. 
Dr. Roxburgh to J. £. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Samulcotah, March 20, 1793. 
Your polite and acceptable letter reached me on 
the 4th of August. The diandrous tree you intend 
to give my name to, you will find described and 
drawn amongst those sent to the court of Directors. 
I thank you for the honour you intend doing me 
in your next fasciculus. M/ucada is one of our 
most valuable and finest timber trees ; some of the 
wood I sent to Mr. Alexander Dalrymple last year, 
to try if it would answer for scales to mathematical 
