144 Mr. plant a’s Account of 
there are no monuments extant, differed very w idely both 
in pronunciation and conftrudtion from that which hath 
at any time been ufed either in writing or in the fenate ? 
The grammatical variations, the fyntax, and the ge * 
nius of the language, rauft in this, as well as in feveral 
other modem European tongues, have been derived from 
the Celtic; it being well known, that the frequent ufe of 
articles, the diftindtion of cafes by prepofitions, the ap- 
plication of two auxiliaries in the conjugations, do by no 
means agree with the Latin turn of expreflion ; although 
a late French academician (0 9 who hath taken great pains 
to prove that the Gallic Romance was folely derived from 
the Roman, quotes leveral inftances in which even the 
nioft claflical writers have in this relpedl offended the 
purity of that refined language. It cannot here be 
denied, that as new ideas always require new figns to 
exprefs them, fome foreign words, and perhaps phrafes, 
muft neceffarily, from time to time, have infinuated 
themfelves into the Romanfli by the military and fome 
commercial intercourfe of the Grifons with other na- 
tions; and this accounts for feveral modern German 
words which are now incorporated into the language of 
the Engadine ( k ). 
The little connexion there is in mountainous coun- 
tries between the inhabitants of the different vallies, and 
the abfolute independence of each jurifdidtion in this 
(i) bon AMY, v. Mem. des Infcrip. 1. c. 
(k) Tapferda, Tapferkeit, Bravery ; Nardil, Narheit, Folly; Elinot , Klei- 
nod, a Jewel; Graf, Graf, a Count; Baur , Baur, a Pcafant, Ac. 
diftridt, 
