, 
1798.] 
&¢ The fifth was deftru€tion upon all the 
flying things of tie Eyyptians; the animals 
were fmitten, through fevere difcafe they 
were maddened to death.” 
I fhall now proceed to give my expla- 
nation of tue name of EGypT, or At- 
GYpr. It is a compound of two primi- 
tive words; one of them. moit probably,. 
isthe AirT, which has been already ana- 
lyzed; and the. other, perhaps, I may 
have had the luck of finding likewife in 
the Welth language; at leaft there is one, 
if not two, which might very aptly be 
prefixed to Airr. ‘he fisit, which I 
fix upon, is the word Aic, what teems, 
or brings forth ali living creatures ; 2vhat 
is prolific; the womb; alto what teems 
with fhoals, or the fea ; 
*¢ Ni thau vy mhen am Weno, 
Mwy nar aig yn min y ro.” 
3 x 
«¢ My tongue cannot be filent about Gwe- 
AO, more than the /ea on the margin of the 
fhore”’ Ieuan Tew, 1370. 
“¢ Mammaeth Ilywodraeth Ie’r are.” 
¢¢ The mother of the kingdom Phat pro- 
duceth life.” 
M. ab G. Gethin, to the river Dee, 1400. 
‘* Pob byWo aia a yfgar.” 
‘¢ Every thingthat has life the female doth 
produce.” Adage. 
By jeining Atcto Arrr there would 
be formed AIGAIFT, or the region of pre- 
lific flowings. But, according to the 
Welfh fyitem of literal inflexions, Ar- 
GaAIFT would, for the fake of euphony, 
be changed to ErcairT: and this again 
is fulceptible of a further change, whien 
lengthened by another termination, as 
Eigeiftion, Eigeifii, Eigéiftiaid, Eigeiftia- 
don, Eigeiftwys, Eigeifiwyfon, Eigeijtwyr, 
or Ligeificion, the inhabitants of the 
EIGAIFT. 
P Though I may give the preference to 
the above definition of Egypt, yet I am 
induced to bring to your notice the word 
EG, which would apply very well prefixt 
to AirtT. Theimport of Ec is an opfeh- 
ing, expanding, breaking out, or uiterance; 
hhence the verbs Egawr and Egori, to 
open. ‘This word joined to AirT makes 
EGAtrFT, the place of overflowiugs, or the 
region of inundations: and the inhabi- 
tants of fuch a place would be denomi- 
nated Egeifiion, Egeifti, Egeiftiaid, Egeif- 
tiadon, Egeiftwys, Egeyfiwy/fon, Egeiftwyr, 
and Egezfteion. 
After taking into confideration what 
has been adduced, in one of your former 
volumes, that the greateft part of the 
Neine of Egypt....Agricultural Ufe of Seed, 259 
aad 
Greek language, as well primitive words 
as compounds, was to be found in the. 
Welth, is it probable that the coincidence’ 
ot ArrT with Art, and the apt illuftra-~ 
tion of EGypT, or AIGYPT, by the 
words EiGaIrtT, and EGAIFT, can be 
notning more than accidental? Iremain, 
Sir, your's, &c. ; 
October 9, 1798. MEIRION, 

To the Editer of the Monthly Magazime. 
SIR, Ne 
i Reeves me to requeft, of fome phi. 
lofophical reader of your admirably 
conduéted Magazine, an explanation of 
the chemical properties of the vegetables 
thrown upon cur coatt in large quantities 
by a ftormy fea, together with diretions, 
founded on the analyfis, for the be% mode 
of applying them as manure. Having 
lately begun to occupy an eftate near the 
fhore, Lhave an opportunity of ufing con-~ 
fiderable portions of this valuable dref- 
ing; but I. find that practical hufband-. 
men in my neignbourhood, differ mate- 
rially in opinion re{peéting the moft efi- 
cacious method of applying it to their 
land. Some throw it on pafture grounds 
immediately from the thore, others carry- 
it to a heap, and rot it with earth, dung, 
and lime, in various proportions, and 
fome few apply it to their land in a rottea, 
fiate, without any foreign mixture what- 
ever. Each mode has its advocates, at 
leaft if I may judge front feeing the dif- 
ferent practices in ufe, though the aft 
mentioned appears to have fewer fup- 
porters than the other two. Sea weed, 
when rotten, is not more than half the 
bulk of the fame quantity ia an undigefted 
ftate; but what qualities are loft in the 
procefs of putrefaction, and how far they 
may be conducive to vegetation, it is the 
province of a philofopher, and not of a 
tarmer, to determine. , 
I mult not omit-to mention, what in- 
deed I am enabled to do from my own 
obfervation, that fea-weed laid on ground 
in a crude ftate, fhortly after mowing, 
produces a, very ftriking and almoft ins 
ftantaneous verdure; but I am told, that 
its effects in this ftate are by no means fo 
durable as thofe of rotten weed. Tam 
likewife informed, that this manure, when 
ufed in the ftate we find it in by the fea- 
fide, fhould be fpread upon the ground fo 
early as to be pretty well wafhed in be- 
fore the approach of winter, as froft has 
a confiderable power in diminifhing its 
ftrexgth, an inconvenience to which I 
underftand it is not liable in a rotten 
{tate. 
This 
