* 44 * ) 
in his Irijh Grammar. The Declenfions of Nouns and 
Pronouns I muft own to be moftly upon the British Plan 3 
but the Verb, which is the Ground-work or Balis of eve- 
ry regular Tongue, feems, as in all uncultivated Langua- 
ges, wild and unaccountable. In the Catalogue of Britijh 
M S S'. our Author has confulted the Reader’s time by 
composing it in the Order of Alphabet, with Abbreviati- 
ons dire&mg to the Studies where they may be leen at 
prefent 3 and alfohis advantage by diftinguifhing always 
betwixt Trafts and fingle Papers, and betwixt perfect Trea- 
tifes and irrperfeft 3 giving a more particular account of 
fuch pieces as feem to deferve it, and difmiffing the ufe- 
lefs Poets of the two laft Centuries with only the bare 
mentioning them. Nor has he fhew’d more Induftry and 
judgment in this ana the other Titles of this Work than 
has been ("for the extent of it) fuccefsfully imitated by 
his Ingenious Fellow-Traveller Mr Parry in his Excellent 
Ejfay towards a Britijh Etynsologicon, where he has Mo- 
deftiy parallell’d the greateft part of. the Britifh Radicals 
with thofe words that feem’d agreeable therewith in any 
other Language 5, without pretending to determine the 
point of Precedency as to Antiquity, which has been too 
much the boldnefs of the late Learned Monfieur Pezron , 
and indeed of moft other Etymolqgifts. The Irijh Focloir 
or Dictionary fo induftriouily compiled by our Learned 
Antiquary, and fupply’d with a large Appendix of omit- 
ted words from Scotland and Ireland , cannot (befides the 
great Service it muft needs contribute to the Inhabitants 
of thofe Countries ) but be judged of conliderable ufe to 
Criticks in the Britijh and Celtic 3 The Guydhelian part of 
that Language, being that which was fpoken by the moft 
Ancient Colony of the Celts in this Iland, and confe* 
quently containing the Etymologies of vaft Numbers of 
Britifh Derivations and Compounds otherwife not to be 
accounted for. 
