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Mr. planta’s Account of 
the fource of the En to the frontiers of the Tyrolefe, is 
by the inhabitants called Ladin . It admits of fome va- 
riation, even in the books, according as they are printed 
either in the upper or the lower part of this province. 
The abovementioned bible is in the dialed: of the lower 
Engadine; which, however, is perfectly underlfood in 
the upper part of that province, where they life no other 
verfion. The other dialed:, which is the language of the 
Grey, or Upper League, is diftinguifhed from the former 
by the name of Cialover : and I muft here obferve, that 
in the very center, and moft inacceffible parts of this lat- 
ter diftrid, there are fome villages fituated in narrow 
vallies, called Rheinwald, Cepina^;, 8cc. in which a third, 
language is fpoken, more limilar to the German than to- 
either of the above idioms, although they be neither, 
contiguous, nor have any great intercourfe with the parts 
where the German is ufecL 
It being impoflible to form any idea of the origin and 
progrefs of a language, without attending to the revolu- 
tions that may have contributed to its formation and fub- 
fequent variations; and this being particularly the cafe 
in the prefent inftance, wherein no feries of documents 
is extant to guide us in our refearches ; I fhall briefly re- 
capitulate the principal events which may have affeded 
the language of the Grifons, as I find them related by 
authors of approved veracity ( h ) 
AMBI- 
(a) tschudi Rhast. Defcrip. p. 43. merian Topogr. Hclvct. p. 64. 
(b) SPRECHER, SIMLER, TSCHUDI, SCHEUCHZER. CAMPELl’s Clu'Oniclc 
is looked upon as the moft authentic and circumftantial ; but there being only 
a few 
