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the hole was 19 inches; and Rey. W. JAGo said it was certain 
that a person might pass through the hole, though it would be a 
tight fit. Mr. Iago considered that the Institution was indebted 
to Mr. Dunkin for his ingenious theory; although he thought 
(with Dr. Barham and others) that it was scarcely a satisfactory 
explanation ; and this for the additional reason, that cromlechs 
were generally imbedded within barrows ; and consequently, with- 
out some means of access through the barrow, the perforated 
stone would be useless as a means of entrance to the interior of a 
kist or cromlech. Mr. Iago further stated that in the Trevelgye 
Barrow, which had recently been opened under Mr. Copeland 
Borlase’s superintendence, the inhumed body had evidently been 
deposited finally ; and though henceforth it would be found that 
the corners of the stone had been knocked off, it should be known 
that this was done to enable Mr. Borlase to get in. A similar 
treatment of the stone at Trethevy might have been similarly 
effected for the convenience of some former explorer. 
The reading of Mr. Kinahan’s paper on the similarity of some 
Cornish rock-names and miners’ terms to Irish words, with ex- 
tracted instances from its appended glossary, induced from Rey. 
Dr. BANNISTER an expression of regret that the writer should 
have relied on Dr. Pryce, whose work was obsolete and full of 
mistakes and misprints. The paper, however, was ingenious, in 
the same way as was the occasional derivation of English names 
from Hebrew.—Mr. HENWooD said he had no knowledge of Irish, 
but he could testify to the general accuracy of Dr. Pryce’s Mining 
Vocabulary. True, it contained some words which were obsolete ; 
but, speaking generally, the work was extremely correct. Of Dr. 
Pryce’s other work he could offer no opinion.—Dr. BANNISTER 
explained that he was referring to the other work, and not to the 
Mining Vocabulary. 
Dr. JAGo said it had occurred to him that something might 
be done towards arriving at a better knowledge of the old lan- 
guage of Cornwall by paying attention to the way in which the 
modern Cornish folk pronounced English, especially with regard 
to vowels and accents. For instance, the frequent pronunciation, 
in this county, of the letter a like the ea in the word steatite, only 
with the last of these two vowels broader, might possibly be 
traceable to the pronunciation of ancient Cornish as a living tongue. 
This isa sound of a not recognised in Williams's Cornish Dictionary. 
Tn accentuation, while the Cornish, at the present day, placed accent 
on the ultimate or penultimate, and emphasis at or near the end 
of a phrase, the Irish, in each case, adopted the opposite principle ; 
and thus while, in Cornwall, the name “ Lanyon”, (Lan = Church, 
