TO BUKOREST. 
names of places on the Ister were purely 
Celtic. The Scordisci were a Celtic nation : and 
when Alexander, in his first expedition 
towards the Ister, encountered the Celts, or 
Gauls, these are the people alluded to'. Al- 
though the Scordisci were almost annihilated, in 
the time when the Roman power extended into 
this country ; yet their Celtic names of places, 
in many instances, remained, as in all those 
towns that had the Celtic termination of dunum. 
We were, however, disappointed in tracing any 
other resemblance between iheBulgarian and the 
Erse, than what exists in the names of numbers. 
More alliance may be observed between the 
Albanian and the Erse, than between the latter 
and the Bulgarian; although they have nearly 
the same name for tvater; and their names of 
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CHAP. 
II. 
ENGLISH. 
MALO-RUSSIAN. 
BULGARIAN. 
Ten. 
Decet. 
Decet. 
HuDdred. 
Sto. 
Sto. 
Thousand. 
Teschecki. 
Chiliada. 
Father. 
OtcU. 
Taho. 
Mother. 
Matchka. 
Maika. 
Brother. 
Brachitch. 
Bracitz. 
Sister. 
Sister. 
Sister. 
Parent. 
Rodena. 
Rodena. 
Book. 
Kenega. 
Kenega. 
Cripps's MS. Journal. 
(1) See D%^nt/t7/<;'s Antient Geography, p. 247. Lond.Mdl, 
