Indo-European Languages. 303 



change), the propriety of considering the Indo-European 

 class as divided into two divisions, the older containing the 

 Celtic, the newer containing the Iranian, Classical, Sarma- 

 tian, and Gothic tongues. All further extensions of the 

 term he believes to be prejudicial to future philology; believing 

 also that all supposed additions to the Indo-European class 

 have (with the exception, perhaps, of the Armenian) involved 

 such farther extension. 



* * * * ■ * 



Note. — After the statement of the preceding remarks, Mr 

 Kingsford suggested the possibility of languages becoming 

 wholly uninflexional, and, as such, reduced to a condition like 

 the languages of the tirst period, in which case they might 

 (as in a cycle) undergo a second series of similar developments 

 de novo ; and so on, ad infinitum. This the present writer 

 believed to be a philological possibility ; indeed, in his Inau- 

 gural lecture at University College, he had expressed a 

 similar notion. 



Note. — Since this was written, a heavy loss has fallen upon 

 the learned world, in the death of Dr Prichard. This induces 

 me to insist more strongly than I should otherwise have done, 

 upon the exception taken to his position of the Celtic being 

 more verbal Wx^^w. real. High as I put his work upon the Phy- 

 sical History of Mankind (especially as it appeared in the first 

 edition, where, though less learned, it was more critical, 

 more original, and more in advance of contemporary thinkers, 

 than in its final form), I put his Eastern Origin of the Celtic 

 Nations equally high ; and, as a definite addition to ethno- 

 graphical philology, even higher. 



On the Fall of Rivers, especially that of the Jordan, in Pales- 

 tine ; the Thames, Ttveed, Clyde, and Dee, in Britain ; and 

 the Shannon, in Ireland. 



Mr Augustus Petenuann, the geogi'apher, in an interesting 

 paper, read to the Geographical Society of London, " On the 

 Depression of the Dead Sea, and the Fall of the Jordan," com- 



