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has been assisted by the casual circumstance that the Hebrew 

 for bread is Path. 



It is possible that Buddhistical principles, in their purity, 

 and those of Zoroaster, wherein divinity and nature are con- 

 ceived together in the all-enlivening Mithra, fire and light, are 

 identical ; although Ammian. Marcellin, xxxiii. 6, mentions the 

 Brahmans instead. See Gibbon, ch. 8. 



15. Prill, or Brill, Britt, Turbot, probably describes the 

 peculiar motion of the fish, which belongs to the pleuronec- 

 tes, since prill and purl were used alike. See Stowe's Survey 

 of London : " In 1598 was set up an image of Diana, and 

 water, &c, prilling from her breast." 



16. Skald was the title of a man who combined the arts 

 of a genuine minstrel, able to perform his own composition, 

 with the knowledge of a divine, historian, &c. The letters 

 ski (scl), conveying the idea of division, decision, distinction, 

 are thus used not only of ideas, as in skald, skill, but bo- 

 dily, in skull, from the division on its surface, and shilling, the 

 Northern skilling (our penny in value), it being the change, or 

 the small coin which divides the larger piece, and called ac- 

 cordingly Scheide-miinze, the Danish skille-mynt (y sounds like 

 ii, the French u). This etymology seems to admit of further 

 extension, scald {separation of the skin through the action of 

 hot fluid), unless it be from caldo (calidus), shell, scale, &c. 



17. Spunge. The Idioticon Hamburgense gives " Sibun- 

 gen gahn," go to extremity, ruin, die, &c, and sibungen as a 

 low corruption of " si bona," the beginning of a cantio sepul- 

 chralis. Compare also Hudibras, i., canto 3 : 



This any man may sing or say, 

 I' the ditty call'd What if a Day ? 



18. Tattoo implies la retraite, or battre la retraite, but ex- 

 presses (with t for p), — after the obsolete manner of saying 

 " make the door to," for the modern "shut the door," — tap- 

 too, meaning that the tap> is to be closed. 



