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speaking of Battel, they say, " There can be little doubt that he 

 believed what he narrated:' And again, (vol. 18, p. 539,) " Mr, 

 Sharpe's industry has traced some curious particulars of James 

 Russel, who so coolly narrates his own share in this horrible 

 transaction." — JYarrate is also used by the Rev. Mr. Raffles in his 

 Tour on the Continent. " To explain and narrate the story of 

 these unparalleled wonders." (p. 279.) Also in the Foreign Quar- 

 terly Review, vol. 1, p. 92. 



Nationality. Mr. Pickering says this is used by some writers 

 in America — but although a new word, he has once met with it in 

 the Quarterly Review in italics. It is used in the same way in the 

 Edinburgh Review, vol. 6, p. 131. " It is therefore with peculiar 

 regret that we are compelled to advert to the nationality of Mes- 

 sieurs Bory & St. Vincent." Dr. Webster also quotes it as used 

 by Boswell. 



Respectability. This is a modern word, not to be found in 

 Johnson. It appears to have been used by Cumberland and Rett 

 (Webster) and is adopted in the Edinburgh Review, vol. 17, p. 

 440. It is, however, I apprehend, in more common use in writing 

 m this country than in England. 



Sources, as a verb. This is used (certainly improperly) by Mr. 

 Nuttall in his Journey to the Arkansa. (p. 158.) "The main 

 south branch (the Canadian) sources with Red River." Mr. Nut- 

 tall is an Englishman by birth, but has been so long resident in this 

 country, that by a species of argument very familiar to reviewers, 

 it may hereafter be called an Americanism, 



Starvation. This word is neither in Johnson, Webster, or 

 Worcester's Johnson & Walker, and yet it is in general use. I 

 have somewhere seen it mentioned, but cannot state the place, that 

 this word was introduced by Henry Dundas, (afterwards Lord 

 Melville) at the period of the Revolutionary War. 



Tarry as a noun. This word is sometimes used in conversation, 

 as f * During my tarry in this place," but is not to be found in any 

 dictionary which I have examined. In the London Courier News- 

 paper of July 7, 1817, it is mentioned that the " Duke of Welling- 

 44 ton was on his arrival (at some place) received by a guard of 

 44 honour, and the band of the 88th continued to play during his 

 ; * Grace's tarry, which was merely to take some refreshment v 



