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36 IS only alluded to here to explain the introduction of a list of words given by Carew. Greek Teino Mamma Episcopus Klyo Didaskein Kyon Kentron Methyo Scaphe Eonchos Cornish, Tedna Mamm Escoppe Klowo Dathisky Kye Kentron Methow Schapth Eonchie English. Draw Mother Bishop To teach Dog Spur Drink Boat Snorting Carew's Survey published by Lord de Dunstanville in 1811, (at p. 150) contains a note respecting the above words, as follows : "Whoever will read Mr. Lhuyds' Archseol. Brit. p. 267, will nob wonder that several of the Cornish words should agree with the Greek, since he there says, that both the Greek and Latin are but of one common origin, viz., the old Gaulish or Celtic; and that several of the greatest philologists of England and France have maintained that the tongues spoken in Cornwall, Wales, and Bas-Bretagne, are the chief remains (if not the whole) of the Celtic lan- guage." Latham, in his " Elements of comparative philology," (and as other writers inform us,) says that the Celtic lan- guages are divided into two branches : 1st the British; as known by the Welsh, the Cornish, and the ancient language