A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 29! 



CHAP. XIV. 



ACCOUNT OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE. 



THE FORCE OF THE LETTERS LIST OF 



PRIMITIVE WORDS CHARACTER OF 



THE LANGUAGE OF THE POETRY- 

 THE CORNISH, ARMORIC, IRISH, AND 



ERSE, ALL DIALECTS OF WELSH THE 



WELSH LANGUAGE DERIVED FROM THE 

 HEBREW INSTANCE OF THEIR AGREE- 

 MENT IT'S ANALOGY TO THE GREEK, 



SAXON ALPHABET THE PROPERTY OF 



THE BRITONS REV. WALTER DAVIES's 



REMARKS ON THE WELSH LANGUAGE. 



IT is fuppofed, that there were ancient- 

 ly, in the Welfh or Britifh language,* 



* For much of the prefent eflay I am indebted to the foU 

 lowing works : Commentarioli Britannia defcriptionis frag- 

 mentum, Auftore Humfredo Llwyd ; Powel's Hiftory of 

 Wales; Edward Llwd's Notes, in Gibfon's Edition of 

 Camden'sBritannica ; Rowland's Mona Antiqua Rsftaurata; 

 Stukeley's Medalic Hiftory ; the Preface to Owen's Tranfla- 

 tion of the Elegies of Llywarch Hen; Jones's Mufical 

 *:and Poetical Relics of the Welfh Bards ; the Monthly Ma- 

 garine; and the firft and fecond volumes of the Cambrian 

 Regifter. 



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