ANTIQUITIES. 



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Tapci 



Papur, 



Pasture, Porfa. 



Path,. Llw y br. 



Pie, 



Pastai 



Pig, Mochyn. 



Pigeon, Colomen. 



Pill, 



Pin. 



Post olfice, Llytliyrdj. 



Pot, Crochan. 



Potatoe, Clorcn, pi. 



claren. 

 Priest, OfFeiriad. 



Quill,.. Asgell. 



Razor, Ellyn. 



River, Afon. 



Road, Ffordd. 



Room, Ystafell, He. 



Saddle, Cyfrwy. 



Salt, Halen. 



Sand, Tyfod. 



School, Ysgol. 



Sea, Mor. ^ 



Seamen Morwr. 



Sheet, ^ Lien, pi. 



Shilling, SwUt, 



Ship, Liang. 



Shirt, Crys. 



Shoe, Esgid . 



Shoemaker, Crydd. 



Silver, Arian. 



Sky, Awyr. 



Sleep, Cwsg. 



Smith, _ Gof. 



Smoke, Mwg. 



Soap, Sebon, 



Son, Mab. 



lleni. 



Stocking, Ilosan, pi. 



hosanau. 



Stone, Carreg, maen. 



Straw, Gwelt. 



Street, Ileol. 



Sugar, _ Siwgr. 



Summer, '. Ilaf. 



Sun, Uauk 



Table, Bwrdd-blcch. 



Tailor, Tauliwr. 



Teeth, Daint. 



Thread, Edau, edcf. 



Towel, ^ LUw-liaiu. 



Town, Tre. 



Tree, Prcn. 



Trout, Brithyl. 



Vale, Dyffryn, 



Veal, Cig-llo. 



Wall, Mnr. 



Washerwoman, . Golchyddes. 



Water, Dwr. 



Well, Ffynnon. 



Wheat, Gcvenith, 



Wine, Gwin. 



The present Welsh letters are the 

 same that are used in England, but 

 there appears sufficient proof that 

 the alphabet, now called the Saxon 

 alphabet, really belonged to the 

 Britons, and was used in their wri- 

 tings many centuries previous to the 

 Saxon invasion. When the Britons 

 were driven out of Mercia, a few of 

 the most learned were suffered to re- 

 main, and from these it has beea 

 conjectured, the Saxons were firs* 

 instructed in the use of letters, it 

 is deserving of remark that Asserus 

 and Scotus, the instructors of Al- 

 fred, were both Welshmen. 



When the Saxons first came into 

 Britain, about the middle of the 

 fifth century, they appear, says, Dr, 

 Johnson, who examined every re- 

 cord extant on the subject, " to 

 " have been a people without Icarn- 

 " iog, and very probably without 

 " an alphabet." 



It has been justly remarked by 

 the learned and indefatigable Row- 

 lands, that if they had brought th« 

 use of letters with them from Saxony, 

 1 or 



