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the Skill and Judgment of the Compiler, or the ufefuln# 
of it to illuftrate the mod Ancient part of our Hiftory $ 
and trace out the Original Inhabitants, and Brigantic and 
Belgic Colonies .• Similitude of Languages, and of Rites 
and Religious Opinions, being by that great Author of 
Hiftoriography, Herodotus Ha l karnaffenfis , defervedly ac- 
counted the mod effablifhed Rules tor fuch Difcoveries. 
TheTngenious and Learned Author has very candidly and 
truly reprefented his own undertaking in his EngUfh Pre- 
face, and in that curious Letter written to my Lord Bi- 
fnop of Hereford 5 to which 1 refer you. - In his BritrJB 
Epiftle to his own Country-men, he delivers his very 
weighty Reafons for alteringthe Vulgar Alphabet of the 
Weljh 5 and juftifies it from the Authority of Ancient M 
S S. and Infcriptions upon Stones in feveral parts of our 
i Country. Next he Learnedly refutes the Opinion of the 
Saxons receiving their Alphabet from An [tin the Monk* 
and (hews that the fame Characters are (till extant on the 
Tomb-Stone of Kadvan King of Guynedh in the Church 
call’d Lhan Gadwaladar in the ifle of Angle fey , who was 
one of the British Princes in that Famous Battle of Ban- 
gor is y coed fought againft thofe Saxons whom Aufiim 
had influenced to Maffacre the Britifh Monies, Indeed all the* 
( Sepulchral Infcriptions in Mr Camden s Brltania abundant- 
ly prove the ufe of the Roman Alphabet in this Noble 
Province, from whence the Ancient Britifi or (as now 
commonly call’d J Saxon , and Irijh Alphabets are very 
fmall Deviations, unavoidly introduced by Time and the 
Arbitrary ufe of Writing. What he next proceeds to, 
( feems much more owing to his Modefty than of any real 
neceffity : I mean his excufing the time he employ’d in 
this great Undertaking ; for that may well feem to any 
Judicious and Impartial Perufer, to have rather been the 
produ& of an Age than of thofe few Years fince his re- 
turn from his Travels. What he fays for putting thofe 
Four Languages into one Book is very reafonable 5 in re- 
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