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ivhich is unknown to the public *, but which, 

 it is highly probable, contains more ample 

 remains of the ANCIENT LANGUAGE of the 



CENTRAL PARTS OF THIS ISLAND, thatl ED/ 



other which is now fpoken ; I was willing to 

 do my bed endeavour towards arrefting :t in 

 its prefent form 5 before the general blaze of 

 falhion and refinement, which has already 

 fpread its dawn even over this fecluded 

 Diftrict, mail have buried it in irretrievable 

 obfcurity. 



* Except fome fragments of if, which were collected 

 on the banks of the Humber (at the mod extreme dif- 

 tance from what may be confidered as the fource of the 

 dialect) by Mr. Brokelby, and communicated to Mr. 

 RAY j who has preferved them in his COLLECTION OF 

 LOCAL WORBJ. 



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