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1809.] | ~The Diletanti Tourist. es 137 
ee “Nigga 
as well as to form stronger sounds, andto was. the substantive, which I must call bs 
norten and render less open, notwith- for him Rapidity. But except in ei 
standing the addition of a letter, the Rapidity 1s unluckily a slow stream. 
pronunciation. They also take igSerted Your's, er. As B, 
letters, for the sake of euphoniously ex- a 
pressing the terms into which they are For the Monthly th wBaizine. 
introduced, “Bh to proceed: the word THE DILLETANTI TOURIST ; 
an water, is often varied to in, ein, ain, Or, “eTTERS from an AMATEUR of 
&c. in names of streams, In the river ARTS, i LONDON, (0 a FRIEND near 
Tine, this word takes the prefix ¢, as ity MANCHESTER, MN 
does in Tain, which is also Gaelic for HILE you are traversing the steep 
water. The river Teign, or Lemmg, is — mountains of Wales, or exploring 
pronounced Ting ; with 7, inserted as r way in the majestic wilds of Lan- 
before, this would become Tring. On cashire, [still remain in Lendon, a voiary 
one of the headsof the river Thames, are to the arts; and tillthe vacation excludes 
the parishes of Tring, aud Little Tring, me for atime from their temples, I shall 
derived from the water on which they remain a constant devotee. You ask 
border; the one being a good stream, the me for news in the world of drt. Mr. 
other asmall one. You will easily per- Shee has published his new poem called 
ceive, Mr. Editor, that Trin,*,with the the Elements of Arts and when I tell 
a pronounced hard, as mg, (which is one youl am pleased only short of the plea-  _ 
of the sounds of this letter, inthe Gaelic, sure I received when [first read what he 99 
from whence this term is derived,) this modestly called “ Rhymes on Art,” you * 
word becomes Tring; that Trin, in the may be convinced it 1s in no slight de- 
Trinobantes, implies stream; and that it gree. Of the exhibition you must alrea- 
must have been a name for this river, dy have learned much from the maga-— 
from the Bibroci, to its mouth. | More- zines, which, with the newspapers, gene- 
over, the river Tern, is latinized Trinius, rally praise it, and think very de- 
as.an old name, in Baxter’s Glossary. servedly. The first part of the new 
The Yrinobantes are written by Ta- series of jhe Artist has made its appear- 
_ citus Trinoantes: the word an is often a ance, which I have forwarded with a 
j variation of en land, and it is even a. few other: Looks for your perusal, ana, I 
in old terms, thamen; but tomake trust, gratiication. But to return to the 
rer syllable only, it took the sculptural antiquities of the Britis# 
prefix 6. The samemay be said of the Museum. a: 
ending of az in. Lie and d were very <¢ Led by the Muse, my steps pervade 
ly, addedvafter n, to strengthen The sacred haunts, the peaceful shade 
ofthe syllable.. Hence T7i- Where Art and scurpTurReE reign. : 
yor Lrinobant, will imply the stream I see, I see, at their command, : 
but if o shall be accounted a plural The living stonesdn order stand, 
siding, or an augment in this word, the | And breathe through every vein. 
Great Stream Land, or the Land on the Time breaks his hostile scythe; he sighs 
Streams. Vhe plural of Trinobant, or the To find his power malignant fled ; 
Lrinobantes, which denotes the inhabi- Ah! what avails my dart, he cries, 
tants, will mean the Dwellers on the Since thesecananimatethe dead? _ 
great Stream Land. sag Since wak’d to mimic life again in stone, 
\ Trin, or Tren, being the same in old The patriot seems to speak, the hero frown? 
names (for in such they used the vowels Such are thy works, O scu/prure! thine to show 
~e and i, indiscriminately ;) and thelriver In hardest rock, a feeling senseof woe? 
‘Trent being formerly written Tren, as f ——— Dodsiey. 
{ may be seen in Shaya Archeologia, — (Itoom 6.)—No. 47 is a fine antique — 
this was derived in a late work in sub- — 
| stance, as above-mentioned. In a re. 
view of this work, the critic finding Tren, nam 
implying rapid, in the common words of tripod, h are 
the Welsh language, conceived that this of Apollo, to whose honour, it is pro-.. 
_ adjective, or quality, (which cannot be bable, tl idelabr as dedicated. — 
) the name of athing) gave name to the The origin of this fa creature, the _ 
and 48, a triangular base of a 
m, the sides of which are or- 4 
griffin, araven, anda 
river Tren ; and he remarked that Trent griffin, is supposedgbyMi@fian, in the 4th 
} _ ss book of his History"éf Animals, to have 
SOTA Giver Ting, is pronounced as*here taket! place in India, »Its general forin 
written, in Teignmouth; but it Is pronounced 1S well known, though it differs in some 
Tain, in Drewsteignton, ; representations. Accerding to the above- 
Gy | ae. » named 
ty YES i ; 5 
Rs Bs bas Na b 
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