152 DESCEIPTION OF AN ANCIENT LAMP. 



ruins of Herculaneiun and Pompeii, which, serves in some 

 measure to support the idea that the Chil was introduced from 

 the east at a very early period, by traders from the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. 



Among the several writers on the old Cornish, or Celtic Lan- 

 guage, I find only one who gives a definition of the word Chil. 

 Borlase, in the copious vocabulary at the end of his Antiquities, 

 gives " Chil, a neck," a meaning which cannot be applied to the- 

 Cornish Lamp. 



