538 Rev. Mr Williams on one Source of the 



Tre-bula, Suffenas in the Sabini ; 

 Tre-ventum, before mentioned. 

 To these may be added, 



Tar- visum in Venetia, now Tre-viso ; 

 1 Ter-geste in Venetia, now Trieste ; 

 Ter-ioli in Rhaetia, now the Tyrol. 

 This induction might have been increased, by examining the 

 names in which the following words are component parts : — 

 Man, a place ; 

 Ban, a hill ; 

 Gwy, water ; 



Glan, the brink, or side of a river, lake, &c. ; 

 Bre, or Bryn, or Bren, a brae', or brow of a hill, and others. 

 But sufficient, I suppose, has been adduced to shew that the Cum- 

 rian language is the only key to a right understanding of local 

 names in Italy, and to induce the learned reader to allow, that 

 the same tongue which entered so deeply into the composition 

 of the names of places, rivers, and mountains, might also have 

 left strong proofs of its existence in the more artificial language 

 which sprung up when the civilization of Magna Graecia and 

 Etruria sunk before the energy and hardihood of the mountain 

 tribes ; and the victors of Septimontium, as they advanced in power 

 and a knowledge of the arts and sciences, had to extend their 

 vernacular vocabulary. 



But before I enter upon an examination of this proof, it will 

 be right to declare, that the Gael as well as the Cumro can claim 

 in common some of the words which have been placed before 

 the reader, and more to which his claim appears exclusive. 

 But this, if granted, does not affect the value of the principle. Let 

 the Gael and the Cumro decide on their respective rights. It is 

 something gained to have expelled the encroaching Teutons. The 



1 Este is a common root in the names of places. See At-Este, Praen-Este, 

 Greek, a,a%. 



