47 See Bosworth’s “Scandinavian Literature,” as to the difference in the arrangement of sentences, and the difference of Idioms between the ancient and modern Scandinavian dialects. 48 Rask, pp. xvii. and xix. Bosworth’s Scandinavian Literature. 49 See the Irish names for the Heavenly Bodies, in Append. A and C. 50 See Appendix A. 51 Possibly many of these words may be traced in the Greek, &c., but it would be foreign to the present subject to enter into too minute a discussion on that head. 52 Chalmers’ Caledonia. 53 In this part of the present work I have derived great assistance from Dr. Prichard’s sound and successful researches, and from the labours of M. Bullet, which are distinguished alike by genius and indefatigable industry. 54 I find M. Bullet in many, and in some few instances Dr. Prichard, have, as I conceive, mistaken the Roman inflections for distinct Celtic words. 55 Malte Brun. 56 Kerdanet’s History of the Language of the Gauls and Armoricans, translated by David Lewis, Esq., in the Cumbrian Quarterly Magazine. 57 Prichard on the Celtic Languages. 58 Tribus (_Latin_.) 59 As previously noticed, the French names handed down from the old Gauls are probably often nearer the Celtic than the Latin names. 60 Esseg, “Water,” (_Dongolan, North Africa._) 61 This word is marked thus, with a dagger, in the Cornish Vocabularies, as being extinct. 62 Chalmers’s Caledonia. 63 Ab-us, (Anton.) Ab-on-trus, Ab-ou-trus, Ab-ou, (Ptolomey.) Baxter suggests Abon trus t, “The Noise of the Rivers,” an allusion, as he supposes, to the noise of the currents. But this explanation involves a change in the second word, and a fanciful construction of the sense of the terms employed. 64 It is only by a very minute and careful investigation of Maps, ancient and modern, that I have been enabled to verify the correctness of this and many other Celtic derivations. 65 A powerful Gaulish Tribe in the East of Gaul. 66 Lacus (_Latin._) 67 This is one of the numerous instances in which, judging merely from ancient Maps, or from the less minute modern Maps, (_on which this stream is not marked_,) the situation of a place seems inconsistent with the derivation suggested. 68 Hornius’s ancient Map. This place is very near to Bilboa. 69 Lan means an inclosed spot in Welsh. 70 Medius (_Latin._) 71 Dr. W. O. Pughe’s Welsh Dictionary. 72 Lutum (_Latin._) 73 Dunum, a Hill Fort. 74 Asia, by Carl Ritter and others. 75 Hence the “Hindoo-Kuh.” 76 A Town. 77 Celtic Ethnography, in Dr. Prichard’s work on “Man.” 78 The word, in the sense of a stream, seems to be confined to such streams as traverse the bottoms of narrow glens. 79 This word occurs in a variety of mutually connected meanings in the Hebrew and Celtic.