6 Properties of Wells Languaze—Colewort and Colefecd. 
may venture to fay, cannot be produced. 
The various inflections of verbs likewile, 
if feparated from the verb they characte- 
rize, are ftill fimple verbs, defcribing the 
time and ation, which was meant to be 
conferred upon the verb to Which they 
might have been affixed. 
it have computed that there are about 
3090 fimple verbs inthe Weifh tongue, to 
each of which may be put twenty different 
prefixes, to give fome particular character 
of time or action; this increafes the num- 
ber to 160,00 O 5 ‘aad thefe may be conju- 
gated five 2 2 generally by in- 
fieGion, as in the learned |] 
auxiliaries, as in the ae ; and this 
makes i Wei if 
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the real number of Weil verbs, if 
there were occafion for fo many, to amount 
fo ee The ancient bards had this 
amazing fore before them to ufe at a 
fure; therefore thefe who would under- 
and their works, muf alfo have itin view. 
I might preceed, by pointing out fimi- 
Jar infiances, with Tegard to other kind of 
werds ; but the ful bjeck fhall be clofed, for 
the prefent, with giving a lit of our anei- 
ent names of the Deity, omitting fuch as 
are connected with, or taken from the 
feriptures, .and the Chriftian religion, 
which we have, in common with others 
who call themfelves Chriftians. 
Bardic names of the Deity: 
Argizeyz, Supreme tree- will; the Lord. 
Ce, the mylter y, the one in eae 
Calwyz, the centre of free-will. 
Deqn, the feparate being. 
| Dewin, that comes, or pervades. 
Hevyz, the renovator; the oe the Lord. 
Dzuw, that exifts, the being ; God. 
HDuyw, that proceeds calies: 
Edwys, the powers of harmony ; the cre- 
; ative powers. 
EJ, harmony; intelligence, fpiritual intellect. 
Fix, that pervades, or that is fubtile. 
Finon, the pervading er-fubtile one. 
féz,that is over, or fupreme ; the Lord. 
iér, that is extreme, or encompafling ; 
the Lord. 
Nau, that is tranquil; the Father. 
Ker , power, might; the Lord. 
Wuz, that is not to be obfcured. 
Panter, the comprehending one. 
Peryv, ae caufer, the creator. 
Per, hat Sep terves the Lord. 
Ri, a rereede! : thats is heft: the Lord. 
Rewywv, that guides, or rules; the Lord. 
_ Such a range of fpeech might induce 
firangers to exclaim, that chores can be no 
poibility of learning it. In anfwer to 
which I may fay, that the difcouragement 
is removed, when they are informed, that 
there is not one irregular verb in the lan. 
[Jan 
guage, which is a fource of fe much vexa- 
tion in moft others. 
This copioufnels creates almoft an im- 
poffibility of tranflating many exprefiions 
to be met with in the Welth language ; 
but a great facility of rendering any thing 
into ifs fo ‘that I feu no er ‘eat difficulty 
F literally tranflating one of the poetical 
rls which attraéted my joes in your 
Magazine, and alfo preferving not only 
the fame number of lines, but the fame 
paufes, the fame length of verfe, and the 
fame character of rhyme. 
From’ the few faéts, above offered to 
your notice, Mr. Editor, you will eafily 
perceive that it is not all empty prejudice, 
on the part of thofe, who may feem to dif- 
cover a partiality for the Welfh language. 
Tremain, Sir, Your's, &c. 
Fat. %> 1799. MeiR10n, 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Wi ( 7 HILST T return you my ‘moft fin- 
VV cere thanks for the honourable 
mention you made of my Tragedy of Isa- 
BLA in the laft number but one of your 
Monthly Magazine, I beg leave to obferve, 
that the gentleman who gave you an ac- 
count of it, was miftaken in calling my 
work a tranflation. Truth requires of 
me, therefore, to tell you, that my Isa- 
BELLA, whofe death, jointly with that of 
Don Carlos, forms. the cataftrophe, is an 
hiftorical fubjeét pretty well known in the 
life of Philip II. of Spain. I beg you 
will do me the favour to infert this letter 
in one of your next numbers, and am with 
great re{fpect, Your’s, &c. G. POLIDORI, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Ch {SERS 
OUR truly excellent mifcellany, Sir, 
is my favourite monthly amufe- 
ment; and that I may make you fome 
fmall return for the pleafure, as well as 
inftruction, I fo often receive therefrom, 
I fit down to give an anfwer to the que- 
ries of your corre{pondent G. A. of Bed- 
ford, relative to the culture and ufe of 
the COLEWorRT and CoLESEED: at the 
fame time, affuring both yourfelf and your 
correfpondent, that my obfervations are 
derived from real praétice. 
Neither the Anjou nor Jerufalem Cole- 
wort have, I believe, ever been much cul- 
tivated in this country ; indeed not at all, 
but in the way of experiment, which has 
never anfwered the fanguine expectations 
af thofe who, many years ago, viewed the 
plant in perhaps the more favourable 
clime of France. In that country they 
grew to the height of {even or eight i ae 
ane. 

