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head. When no one offers an etymology, all I can 
say is, that every one is at liberty to guess at it. 
If you choose to refer to Thule, who has a right to 
condemn you, unless he will give you a true origin? 
Where have we in compounded words, e for extra 
in the local sense of beyond? 
Euclea was once a name for Diana. (See Con- 
stantini Lexicon in vocem EvxAea.) Was her name 
derived from her celebrity or her chastity? In either 
case it is derived from the idea of celebrity. For 
kAew, to shut up, would never form a derivative 
kAea; it is against rule. 
If Linnzus did really form it from kAew, claudo, 
he acted, as he often has done, from not knowing 
better. The manifold coverings evidently justify 
the idea that he did so: but it is contrary to rule; 
nouns are usually formed from the Aoristus, or 
Perfectum of verbs. 
I am quite sorry that you do not come here this 
year, as well as next. So many things happen enter 
poculum et labra, that I always dread delays. How- 
ever, if you will keep your word, and come next 
year with Mrs. Smith, we will endeavour to put up 
with the disappointment.—I fear that the death of 
Lady Amelia Hume will take Sir Abraham off from 
natural history. 
If you should find any clue to Ewclea and Ethu- 
fia, let me know, and I will hunt again. I remem- 
ber of old that I could not do anything with 
Ethulia. 
S. CARLISLE. 
