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33 He has also added a Sketch of Cornish Grammar, and the early Cornish Vocabulary, with a valuable appendix. By the appearance of these volumes the editor's difficulties were overcome, and he hastened to complete his cherished work. The whole of the Dramas, and other documents are now incorporated in the Dictionary, and copious examples are given for the illustration of the words. To complete the subject the editor intends publishing in due form a copious Grammar of the Cornish, compared with the cognate dialects, and an essay on the characteris- tics of the six Celtic languages, together with alphabetical tables of words, common to two or more of them. A list of words will also be given of words borrowed from Latin by the Welsh during the stay of the Komans in Britain, which will be found much more extensive than is generally imagined. The whole, it is presumed, will be found of service in arriving at the history of the population of the British Isles."