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1 Spina, on the Adriatic, Spinse, in Berkshire. 



2 Ceneta in Venetia, Cunetio, in Wiltshire. 



! The Morgetes, Morgant, Morgan-wg Gla-Morgan. 



Having thus, as I hope, proved the close connexion between 

 the Italian tribes of Umbrian race and origin with our own Cum- 

 ri, it remains that I should conclude with shewing from the still 

 existing language of the latter that the ancient Umbrian entered 

 into the composition of the former. 



And first, let me premise that (as it has been lately shewn, and 

 is now acknowledged by all linguists) two languages may have a 

 common vocabulary but different grammars. The Latin lan- 

 guage, whether from Pelasgic or Achaean influence, adopted at an 

 early period the Hellenic grammar, and under the skilful hands 

 of the bilingual Ennius, became that polished interpreter of 

 thought, which yields in regularity and majesty to the Greek 

 alone. The Cumri either retained, which is more probable, a 



Mai, Cunirice, is a plain, and Man (in composition Van), a place, hence Meivan 

 or Maivan, means " a city of the plain." It is from the Saxons that we learn that 

 Anglesea also bore this name ; they called it Mon-ege, i. e. " Mona isle," or Man. 

 Cyn, i. e, " Chief spot," from its holiness, and, as it appears, Meivan or Mevania, 

 from its champaign character. 



1 Spina, supposed to have been a Pelasgic city, was placed at the south-eastern 

 mouth of the Po. Spina on the river Kennett, is still called Speen. As the Pe- 

 lasgi gave the name to the one city, it might be inferred that they gave it also to 

 the other ; but it is far more probable that the same primitive race which named 

 Spina before the visit of the Pelasgi, gave the same name to the British city. 



2 These two words, together with the name of the river Cunetio, may serve to 

 fix the original position of the Cunetes of Herodotus (iv. cap. 49-)> " the Danube 

 flows through all Europe, beginning from the Celtae, who, after the Cunetes, are 

 the most western inhabitants of Europe." 



3 These Morgetes, called also Morgentes, as may be inferred from their city, 

 Mogyev7/ov, at the mouth of the Symaithus, in Sicily, were one of the earliest Italian 

 tribes, so denominated apparently from their position on the sea coast. Mor, sea, 

 Gant, brink or side, compare Morgan-wg, in South Wales, Vor-ganium or Morganium 

 in Aremorica. The Samnite Murgantia was, according to the coins, Murtantia. 



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