This, however, I imagine, is not the point on which he wishes for information. If a stranger glances at a page of Welsh without being aware that _y_ and _w_ are, strictly speaking, vowels, he will of course naturally conclude that he sees an over proportion of consonants. Hence, probably, has arisen the very general idea on the subject, which is perhaps strengthened by the frequent occurrence of the double consonants _Ll_ and _Dd_, the first of which is but a sign, standing for a peculiar softening of the letter; and the latter for _Th_ of the English language. Such an idea might perhaps be conveyed by the following instances, taken at random: _Dywyll_, _Dydd_, _Gwyddna_, _Llwyn_, _Gwyrliw_, &c. But it will be dispelled by an orthography adapted to the pronunciation; thus _Dou-ill_[3], _Deeth_, _Goo-eeth-na_, _Lloo-een_, _Gueer-leeoo_. J. M. will be interested to know that the Welsh language can furnish almost unexampled instances of an accumulation of vowels, such as that furnished by the word _ieuainc_, young men, &c.; but above all by the often-quoted _englyn_ or stanza on the spider or silkworm, which, in its four lines, _does not contain a single consonant_: "O'i wi[^w] wy i weu ê â,--a'i weau O'i wyau e weua: E weua ei [^w]e aia, A'i weau yw ieuau iâ." SELEUCUS. In reply to J. M. I beg to ask who ever before heard that consonants "cracked and cracked, and ground and exploded?" and how could the writer in Chambers's _Repository_ possibly know that the drunken Welshman cursed and swore in _consonants_? There is scarcely a more harshly-sounding word in the Welsh language--admitted by a clever and satirical author to have "the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek"--than the term _crack_, adopted from the Dutch. There is no Welsh monosyllable that contains, like the Saxon _strength_, seven consonants with only one vowel. There is no Welsh proper name, like Rentzsch, the watchmaker of Regent Street, that contains six consonants in succession in one syllable; and yet the Welsh have never accused their _younger_ sister with the use of consonants which "cracked and cracked, and ground and exploded." But if the Welsh language, with "its variety, copiousness, and even harmony, to be equalled by few, perhaps excelled by none," has no instance of six consonants in succession, it has one of six vowels in succession, _Gwaewawr_, every one of which requires, according to the peculiarity of its pronunciation, a separate inflection of the voice. J. M. may be assured that the remark of the writer in question is only one of those pitiful "cracks" which flippant authors utter in plain ignorance of Cymru, Cymraeg, and Cymry. CYMRO. Marlbro.