Cn the Ji%th of July toai puhliped, the Svppt imentary Numh^K n the Nineteenth 

 Volume of the Monthly Magazine, containing — a cowfrehen/.v: Ret'-offeS? of the frognf- 

 fion o/British Literature during the lafijix Monlhi — and fimilar E.a:ofpctJs of Fo- 

 reign Literature ; lultb Indexes, Title, ^c. 



THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 132.] 



AUGUST 1, 1805. [1, of Vol. 20. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



HAVING read wiih confiderable 

 plealuie, in the laft Niimbtr of the 

 Monthly Mitgazine, a very ingenious 

 Paper " On the Hiilory of Co^clies 

 in M'dern Eurnpe," by the author of the 

 *' Antiquary," I am induced to fend you 

 the rel'ulr of fome further refeirches on 

 the lubjeft ; itiore particularly becauCe 

 the valuable communication lo which I 

 have alluded, is fileiit as to the origin of 

 the term coach, and is not quire compleat 

 as to the firft invention of this ufeful ve- 

 hicle. 



Johnfon, in his Dictionary, fays, |hat 

 the coach is an Hungiiiin Invention, and 

 Kitf'ee, a I'mali tow,-; not fir froin Piei- 

 buig, has been fu[,p fed, by fome gcod 

 antiquaries, to have given itsn ^me to this 

 vehicle, as being the place where it was 

 firft fabricated. To feme antiquan.Tns, 

 the words kitfee and coach may be firik- 

 ingly alike; forFilliei, 1 'hink, in prov. 

 ing the common origin ot the Hungarians 

 and Finlanders, exclaims, " QvaiUula efi 

 ea differentia nominum Ugar et Fogul." 



One D. Cornides, however, printed a 

 fliort Paper in the- Hungarian Magazine, 

 which is more to the purpofe. " That 

 vehicle (fays he) which in German is 

 called a kutfche (coach), and which, on 

 account ot its great corivenience, is intro- 

 duced into all the countries of Europe, 

 has, as it is well known, in other European 

 languages, nearly the fame name. This 

 would lead one to conjefhire, with proba- 

 bility, that the vehicle, and Hkewifc its 

 name, originated and was in ufe with one 

 people only, froiii whence other nations 

 t.;ck the invention rnd the name. An 

 infinity of tximjiles fujiport the juftnefs of 

 thi conjeflure : thus, fur example, the 

 French word minuet is retained ''n all other 

 languages, as this dance was invented in 

 France, bom whence, by degrses, it pals- 

 ed into other countrie-i. hucli a gene- 

 ral'y receivul word is kutfche. Thofc, 



Monthly .Mag. No. 13',. 



th.;refore, who have attempted to give the 

 origin of this word, ought to have ex;imin- 

 ed in what country cuacnes v.'eie fiill made. 

 As long as this point remains iindetermin. 

 ed, all etymological derivations of the 

 word kutfche re't upon very uncertain 

 conjeftures, as it has been obfcrve I by 

 the celebrated Swed.rti profelfcr Joh.'i 

 Ihre, in hhGloffariu-ftSuiigolhicum, fom.i. 



col. 1 1 78, p'intcd at Upfal in 1760 



Thefe are l:is words : ' Kujk, auriga.— 

 Proprie ipCum carpsntum videtur ueno- 

 tare. Gall. Coclier. — Hifj. id. — Ital. 

 Cocchio- — Angl. Coach — Hung. Cotczy. 

 Belg. Gcstfe. — Germ. Kulfcke; qui ^ero 

 ejufmodi vehicula dirigit, Anglis Coach- 

 matt diet ur, quod brevius aliae linruas 

 redd.dere, ut G^lli Cochcr, nos Kuji, di- 

 centes. Cujus vero criginis fit, d:£tu di.''. 

 ficile tft, quum igncremus cujus populi 

 inventum fint ca.nierata hKC vehicula.— 

 Latinum facit Mep.agiiis, et quidem lonro 

 circuitu a 'vehiculum fornsatum ; Jitnins, 

 paulo minus operoie, Graecum ab a-/iu, 

 vtho ; IFachterus, Girmanicum Sikutteu, 

 tegere ; Lyi, Be'gicum a kctfcin, cubere, 

 utpropiie lefticam fignificet. Piasrereu 

 alias aliorum corjeiSl'.iras.' 



" I venture (lays Cornides) to prove, 

 by evident teltimonies, that this carriage 

 originated in Hungary, and that it lus 

 received the name kutfche from the place 

 of its invention or nativity, if I may fo 

 exprefs myfelf, and that it has bt-tn pro- 

 pagated to other nations. I will bring 

 forwaid myuireties. 



" Thefuft is, John Lifthius, Bifhop of 

 Wefprim, and Chancellor to the Court, 

 one of the moll able ;;ien of his time. He 

 had written with his own hand feveral 

 fr.ort but very ufeful remarks on the mar- 

 gin of the D^'cadcs ofBonfinlns, whith lie 

 hail received from the celebrated John 

 Sambucus as a prefent. Amortg the r<;- 

 inarks of Lifthius upon fome of the paf- 

 lages of Bunfinius, the lo, lowing appear 

 particulai-ly remarkable : 



• Boniin. dtcad. 4. lib, i, rtlatcs, that 

 A ths 



