1799-] Etymology of Sicily, Etna, Vefuvins, and Strombali. | 
ponent parts of a foil; the natural quality, 
and condition of thole parts, is of the ut- 
moft import. There-are clays and fands 
of the utmott fertility by nature, in Eflex 
and Suffolk, on the fouth coatt, and in the 
weft, for inftance; other clayey and fandy 
lands are fo naturally fteril and hungry, 
that they will {wallow up an immenfity of 
manure, with very little apparent, or very 
tardy benefit. The turnips of fuch poor 
lands, as I have elfewhere obferved, are by 
no means fo nutritious as thofe produced 
upon rich foils, nor will they fatten cattle 
without other affiftance. I fhould fuppofe 
the lands in Bedfordthire to be generally 
of a fuperior defcription, and that the 
dryeft of thofe of G. A. ftirred deep and 
wrought as fine as poffible, would pro. 
duce a confiderable and profitable weight 
ef the belt Englith turnips. ‘Thefe might 
be ftacked, in tull perfection, before the 
froft had either damaged them, or di- 
minifhed their weight, the tops being 
thrown to the cattle. But I have {till 
known turnips ftacked in the moft careful 
way, and ina warm fituation, affected, 
and even rotted by the froft; and, in very 
severe weather," they are but a cold and 
watery diet. 
I fubmit it to G. A.’s fuperior inform- 
ation, whether it would not be amufing, 
and not improbably advantageous to him, 
(if he has not already) to make trial of 
cabbages, tor the bulk fake, and of the 
fuperior roots juft now mentioned. The 
fuccefs of cabbages muf be certain. Po- 
tatoes will fucceed on his land, to a cer- 
tain degree, and although (notwithftand- 
ing fome pretenfions to the contrary) they 
are worfe than ufelefs without boiling, 
with it, their ufe is great, particularly 
with pig ftock. Carrots and parfnips are 
not fo nice about the quality, as the 
depth of the foil; and if fuccefs with 
them fhould not be of the firf rate, yet 
ample amends is made, by their excellent 
quality, and the comforts they difpenfe 
among the farming ftock, ina fevere win- 
ter. The wintry wetne{s of the foil does 
not fo much affect thefe, fince they ere a 
fummer crop, and fhould be got in as 
early as poffible, upon all earths, but 
fands: to this end, they fhould be fown 
on winter fallows, laid up in broad and 
high lands, carefully drained with water 
furrows. The foil being deep, well worked 
and well manured, the carrots will be 
jarge and long, but not of fo deep a co- 
lour, nor indeed in fo great a quantity, as 
on rich fands ;_ in which predicament, in 
point of quantity I mean, turnips alfo 
ftand. 
I obferve mention made of ‘¢ fheep 
ftanding up to their hocks’’ in wet clays. 
Is it then the pragtice to winter fheep on 
fuch lands? I am partial to wintering all 
kinds of ftock at home, and as much un- 
der cover as poflible. ‘The Italian method 
of wintering fheep ip pens, or warm yards, 
has been tried in England, particularly 
by Mr. Young, with great fuccefs. Are 
fheep a fit ttock for wet, clayey foils? On 
thefe points I fhould efteem myfelf highly 
obliged to G. A. for information. For’ 
my own part, am much attached to pig 
ftock, with which f have been largely con- 
cerned. 
A PRACTICAL FARMER. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me to offer to the notice of 
your readers a few examples of ety- 
mology, derived from the Welfh lan- 
guage, prefaced by the enumeration of 
fome of the leading proofs, which ought 
to induce a recurrence to that tongue, for 
the explanation of the names of places in 
different parts of Europe. 
The firft preliminary obfervation is, 
that it can be fully proved, though it is 
generally admitted, that the original inha- 
bitants of moft of this part of the world 
were a people who have improperly paffed 
under the denomination of Celis, and 
from whom the Wed/b ‘ave immediate de- 
{cendants. 
Secondly, that the moft ancient appel- 
lations are thofe of countries, feas, rivers, 
and mountains. a 
Thirdly, that a great proportion of the 
nomes of places have no meaning at all in, 
or are not words of the modern languages 
of the feveral countries where they are fi- 
tuated. 
Fourthly, in confequence of the fore- 
going premifes, it is to be inferred, that 
thofe names are words which never had 
any fignification ; or they are the remains 
of the language of a prior race of people. 
Fifthly, there are abundant proofs to 
fhew that the Wels language 7s, at the 
prefent day, exaétly what it was in the 
twelfth century, even to the peculiarity of 
dialects in the different parts of Wales, 
Sixthly, the inference from the lat 
proof is, that if xo change took place in 
the courfe of /ix centuries, and during the 
greateft part of that period the Welfp 
people were in clofe conneion with the 
Englifo, a iefs change, if poflible, mu 
have happened in an equa! length of time 
prior to the twelfth century, when they 
were witheut any intercourse with ftrangers, 
Seventhly, 
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