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upon British Ethnology . 
the British soldier and sailor, we may he indebted largely to 
the Anglo-Saxon for the love of compromise and hatred of 
extremes that have hitherto allowed of the working of parlia¬ 
mentary institutions without violent and fatal shocks. Nor 
must we forget what is due to the Huguenots who taught us 
so many useful arts, or to the Normans who welded Wessex, 
Mercia, and Northumbria into the English Nation. 
Appendix. 
Notes on the Survival of Fragments of Celtic Languages 
in English-spearing Britain. 
Mr. A. J. Ellis, in a paper on the ‘ Anglo-Cymric Score’ 
(Trans. Phil. Soc. 1877-8-9), discussed a set of numerals, 
from one to twenty, of Cymric origin, formerly much used 
by the shepherds of north-western England, and still to some 
extent known there. Mr. Ellis examined fifty-three different 
versions of this score; hut doubts whether they are a sur¬ 
vival of the former C 3 unric speech of that region or an impor¬ 
tation thither from Wales. In a review of Mr. Ellis’s paper 
in the ‘Academy’ (May 17, 1879), Mr. Henry Bradley gave 
four hitherto unpublished versions of the score ; 1, Leeds or 
York; 2, Bawtry, Notts ; 3, Sheffield ; 4, Brigliouse, York¬ 
shire. From a comparison of all the versions hitherto pub¬ 
lished Mr. Bradley is confident that they all descend from 
one primitive type, and considers that “these Anglo-Cymric 
numerals are entitled to he regarded as a genuine remnant of 
the British dialect of the north-west of England, and as 
proviug that that dialect was nearly identical with the oldest 
known Welsh.” 
In the ‘Academy’ of Nov. 20th, 1886, appears the fol¬ 
lowing note on the still more remarkable survival of a tongue 
of Gaelic affinities :— 
“A Pre-Historic Language yet surviving in Britain. 
“At the recent Orientalist Congress in Vienna, Mr. C. G. 
Leland read a paper on ‘ The Original Gypsies and their 
Language,’ not the least interesting part of which was a 
