_Prince Madoc._--I was much gratified on reading "T.T.'s" note, commenting on my observations respecting the Mandan language, as he proves the existence of Celtic words amongst the American Indians. Regarding "T.T.'s" doubts as to the Mandans being descended from the followers of Madoc, I confess that my opinions on the point do not differ very widely from his own. The circumstances attending Madoc's emigration, in the paucity of its numbers and the entire separation from the mother country, with the character of the Indians, would almost ensure the ultimate destruction of the settlement, or the ultimate absorption of its remains by those who might have had friendly relations with the Welsh. In this most favourable view, the evidences of the presence of the Welsh seven centuries since would be few indeed at the present day. The most striking circumstance of this nature that I met with in Mr. Catlin's work, is a description of what he calls a "bull-boat," from its being covered with a bull's hide, which, in construction and form, is perfectly identical with the Welsh "_cwrygl_." Yet, strong as this resemblance is, it will have but little weight if unsupported by other evidence. In conclusion, I would observe, that I never supposed Prince Madoc to be the discover of America, but that his voyage was induced by the knowledge that other lands existed in the great ocean (_see_ Humboldt's _Examen critique_). The emblems found in America, and said to be crosses, are obviously the _tau_ [cross symbol], or symbol of life, and can have no connection with Christianity. GOMER. _Poghell_ (No. 12. p. 186.).--In Cornwall and Devon there are places called Poughill or Poghill,--in _Domesday_, Pochelle; and in the _Taxatio Ecclesiastica_, Pockehulle and Pogheheulle. The etymology of the word, I take to be merely the addition (as is often found) of the Anglo-Saxon _hill_, or _hull_, to the old Teutonic word Pock, or Pok, an eruption or protrusion. In low Latin, Pogetum is colliculus. (See Ducange.) S.S.S. _Swingeing Tureen_ (No. 19. p. 211., and No. 21. p. 340.).--How could "SELEUCUS" "conclude" that Goldsmith's "Poor Beau Tibbs and Kitty his Wife," should have had "a _silver_ tureen" of expensive construction? It is evident that "Kitty's" husband, in the "Haunch of Venison," was the Beau Tibbs of the "Citizen of the World." There can be no doubt that, however the word be spelled, {407} the meaning is _swingeing_, "huge, great," which I admit was generally, if not always, in those days spelled swinging, as in Johnson--"_Swinging_, from _swinge, huge, great_;" but which ought to be, as it is pronounced, _swingeing_. _Tureen_ (pp. 246. 307. 340.).--"And instead of soup in a China terrene." (Knox, Essay 57 _Works_. vol. ii. p. 572.) S.S.S.