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Vlil. A letter from Mr William Baxter to Dr Hans Sloane, 
R. 5 . Seer . containing an Account of a Book^ Intituled 9 
Areteologia Britannica, giving jome account Additional 
to what has hitherto been Vuhlifd d^ of the Languages , Hi - 
fiories and Cuftoms of the Original Inhabitants of Great 
Britain : From Collections and Obfervations in Travels 
through Wales, Cornwal, Bas Bretagne, Ireland and 
Scotland, By Edward Lhuyd, M. A. of Jefus College, 
Keeper of the Afhmolean Mufeum in Oxford . Vol. I. 
Containing , 1. A Comparative Etymology 3 Remarks 
on the Alteration of Languages* 2. A Latin* Cel tick 
Dictionary ; or , a Vocabulary of the Original Languages 
of Britain and Ireland. 3. An Armoric Grammar . 
4. An Armoric • Englifj Vocabulary , 5. WeUh 
V/ords omitted in Dr . DaviesV Dictionary. 6 . A 
Cor nidi Grammar. 7. J Catalogue of Britifh Manu- 
Jcripts . 8. An Effay towards a Brkifh Etymologicon . 
9. Introduction to the Irifh <?r Ancient Scotidi 
Language . 10. Irifh~Engli(h Dictionary. Oxford, 
Printed ' Theatre for the Author , MDCCVIT 
delivered at the Afhmolean Mufeum. 
3 have carefully perus'd this Firft Volume of WuLhuyds 
Archeeologia Britannic a , or Glojfography 3 and am bold 
to fay that nothing in this kind has appeared in Publick, 
within my knowledge, this Century to be compared unto 
it 3 whether we confider the Elaboratenefs of the Work, 
