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dia (pronounced im*n*ia), of the. days. —.S’flnsf. dlu-ii'am.— • 
(coH. Old High r7cr. kop-oo-o ; xl.-iS’M.r. giv-cn-a, f/we 
Now, weighing all these offjiiitirs of the Celtic uitli the f 
one aide, and tlio Sanscrit on the otlier, I believe vo may be jusUnc i 
iiiK huiwimmi i.n« uiiuiyitcut mi»uii.j *<* h.— •. 
bcaiiliful nynlhetic consistence, eo to apeak, of its vigorous matunty.a 
find it represented in the Sanscrit. . .. 1 ^,.. 
The intermediate position whieh we liave. assigned to ^ 
spect to the tfifferent cpoeliB of the Japhetic languages, it stiU ho s, 
gards tho rclalioii of this I'aniily with the Semitic and Finish, ° . u 
participate in many of its iion*S«Dscritic features. It appears to ^ 
tins internal relationslii]), inncU mon; than by external contact, tna ^ 
explain tho roseinblancu of matiy Celtic clenurnts with those of two . 
both of which seem to belong to a Celto-Finish branch, I weasi the i 
and Etruscan*. , ♦ipti.'lil! 
And if at presout, once more passing our eye successively over ^ ^ 
of elhuology, history of lutjguago and philosophy of 
full view of all the light which fulls on them from the study ot the L 
may perhaps find it excusable*, that the CcUonmuiatis 
by it aa to fancy that in tlial language they had discovered tlse t! 
of mankind as well as tho key of all worldly aud divine science; “oth 
that tliey liave achievctl in carrying out U»eir fancies has certainly ^ 
to obscure, and for a long time to discredit, that very study to whic 
attached such supreme importance. . 
As Afourdt argwnod in favour of that study, aud perhaps the nws ^ 
of all, 1 might add, the access which it 0]>cu9 to the study 
Celtic litcratun*, a literature as interesting in an artUtical as an bistOTi 
of view, and which, ‘nv a long scries of poetical and lii>toric jg j;.- 
ancient perhaps as the fifth century of onr era, and all 
genuine features of native art aud iuspiratiou, exhibits the Ceinc^^s^ 
two of the principal elements of mwlern European r- 
tdUgoriad roffi««ce. Kut tho very copiousness of this subject to 
to enter upon it on this occasion. , , j„ceP' 
1 Bhall conclude this discourse with the fervent hope, in iavo^ 
trust my lu‘.arer* pmiicipate, that the two dialects of this highly ^{i 
and beautiful language, still extant in the island of Pryd, maf iM 
subsist, but may be maitilained, both by their own vital energy ^'jir 
euligljtenetl care of the government, as constituting one of t e 
cious, os well as most aucient gems iu the Imperial Crown. m oofl** 
. regards the advaiUagc which may be derived from the Celtic for ^ ® 
e Etruscan, vide the article last quoted in the Miincfiner Gelehrie 
