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admitted Indo-European languages, that Dr. Pricliard has claimed for 

 the Celtic a place with them in the third of the above classes ; and has 

 considered the Celts as of identical origin with those nations who spread 

 from the shores of the Indus over Europe, from what has been called by 

 philologists the Indo-European stock.* 



There are found in the Celtic dialects of the present day, two distinct 

 classes of words, closely resembling the Latin. Of these the first class are 

 chiefly primitive words, expressive of simple ideas j such, for example, as 

 the following. 



* The Indo-Ruropean hypothesis is a modern one. In the works of one of its 

 earlier advocates, speaking of the connexion between the Sanskrit and the Latin, 

 occurs the following striking passage. " Quod admirationem augct, est, affines 

 istas dictiones non esse noinina numinorum, quae c.v uno orbis liraite ad alium trans- 

 eunt, non clypei, non hasta?, non plantarum exoticarum, non peregrinarum mercium, 

 qua; alicna et adventitia vocabula in disjunctas orbis partes invehunt; sed esse pri- 

 nuBVm societatk elementares dictiones, natura: et muluce necessitudinis nomina, qucB 

 cum societate oriuniur, crescunt, et adidcscwit. Ha;c ratio et causa jamduduni me 

 induxit ut crcdcrem, vetercs Indos et Latinos in rcmota antiquitatc unius stirpis 

 homines fuisse et ab uno stipite dcscendere, in cujus familia;, rudis illc quidem, sed 

 unus priniordialis sanscrdamicus sermo vigcbat." Bartolomeo, dc Latinsc Origine, 

 etc. 1802, cited by Schaill. 



