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a scholar like Sir W m, Jones, in an essay before the Society at 

 Bengal, when speaking of a doubtful Arabic Couplet, says, " On 

 the whole, I guess that the distich should be thus written. "Asiatic 

 Researches, vol, 1, p. 4. 1 am indebted for this reference to Dr. 

 Coxe. (Emporium of Arts, vol. 1. p. 91.) 



Illy, The use of this adverb cannot be too frequently condemn- 

 ed, and it is to be regretted that a man of the eloquence and general 

 accuracy in writing, of Mr. Clay, should have given it the sanction 

 of his example, which he did on taking his seat as Speaker, in 

 December, 1817. I have subsequently seen the word used, in 

 some communication to the Legislature of New- York, but did not 

 the time note, and I cannot now recall it. 



Immigration. First used by Dr. Belknap. The Quarterly Re- 

 viewers do us the honour of approving its use. They say, (vol, 

 30, p. 39,) "The Americans have judiciously adopted this word 

 from our old writers. It is one which we should not have suffered 

 to become obsolete." 



Locate, as a verb. " This word," says Mr. Pickering, " is not 

 44 in the English Dictionaries." It is however used. Cumberland 

 in his Memoirs, (p. 318, Amer. Ed.) speaking of Dilly's Enter- 

 tainments, says, " Here he (Boswell) has located some of thelive- 

 " liest scenes and most brilliant passages in his entertaining an- 

 " ecdotes of his friend Samuel Johnson." And again, in the Ed- 

 inburgh Review, (vol. 47, p. 88,) speaking of New South Wales, 

 it is remarked, 44 that the banks of these rivers arc fast filling with 

 44 settlements, those of the Hunter, the nearest to the seat of gov- 

 44 ernment, being, we understand, entirely located." 



In the sense usually applied to the word in this country, it is 

 certainly a technical one, with which we cannot dispense. 



Mean used for Means by President Munroe in his speech, De- 

 cember, 1817— -and criticised by Mr. Coleman. This may rather 

 be called an impropriety than an Americanism. Means is now 

 generally acknowledged as both singular and plural. 



Narrate, as a verb. This word has never been directly charg- 

 ed as an Americanism, but has been quoted against us in ital- 

 ics. The Quarterly Reviewers in noticing Dr. McCrie's Life of 

 John Knox, object to his using " the abominable verb narrate, 

 which must (say they) absolutely be proscribed in all good writ- 

 ing." It is amusing, in the short space of three years, to find this 

 verb used repeatedly by the same reviewers. In vol 17, p. 304, 



