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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

of Lhuyd's Archælogia, or from John Davies's Welsh Dictionary.

6. Pryce's Vocabulary, or rather that of Gwavas, Tonkin, and Pryce. Printed, with Pryce's edition of Lhuyd's Grammar, at Sherborne in 1790. Some of this vocabulary was collected from the literary remains of Cornish, but a very large part was compiled from living tradition, not much by Pryce himself, but by Gwavas and Tonkin.

Though some of these have been used by Canon Williams in his Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum, by Dr.Whitley Stokes in his Supplementary Cornish Glossary (Transactions of the Philological Society, 1868–9), an d still more in Dr. Jago's English-Cornish Dictionary, they have not been thoroughly exhausted yet, and a good many more words may be collected from them, as also from the attempted interpretations of place-names in Pryce's book and in the Gwavas MS.