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mains of the Goth 



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ing this, yet we find that thefe dialedts differ in many refpeds, 

 each having peculiar words, for ideas which the nation acquired 



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later, after parting from the original 



be : and other words, which 



they obtained hy connexions with, or the conqueft of, another 



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nation : many words, however, though fomewhat modified, al- 

 ways preferve enough of the original type, to fatisfy the critical 

 etymologift, that they belong to thejame general la7iguagey as fub- 



ordinate dialects. This fliort digreffion will therefore open a way 

 to prove that the five races, which I enumerated as belonging to 

 the firfl tribe, are really defcended from the fame original nation ; 

 for they all ipeak a language that has in the greatefl part of their 

 wordr, a great and ftriking afiinity. 



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I took partic 



ding the words of every p 



nation we met with, that I might be enabled to form an idea of 

 the whole, and how far all the languages are related to each other. 

 I foon perceived, that in general, the fiye][nations already enumerated, 

 fpoke a language differing only in a few words, and that for the 

 greater part, the difference eonfifled in a few vowels or confonants, 

 though the words flill preferved a great affinity ; nay, m.any were 

 abfolutely the fame in all the dialedts. I could therefore no lomrer 

 doubt, that they were all defcended from the fame original flem, 

 and that the differences in the language arofe only from the diffi- 



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