65 A powerful Gaulish Tribe in the East of Gaul.
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.
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.
80 Petro is said to mean a Rock, in Gaulish names, by some French Celtic scholars.
81 Hence, also, as may be inferred, the Curi-osilitæ in Brittany.
82 In such instances, however, the Celtic generally presents words approaching in sound and sense to those occurring in the Local names, though not so near to then as the Oriental terms, &c.
83 E.r, a Mountain; by reduplication E.r r, a very high Mountain (_Heb._)
85 Here is an explanation, in the instance of the very same word, of Lhuyd’s difficulty noticed in the last Section.
86 In Appendix A the original identity and subsequent specific appropriation of the names of the Heavenly Luminaries are especially noticed. See Appendix A, p. 48. These words occur in the same Appendix; as to “Tin-dee,” see p. 26, as to “Nganga,” see same page.
87 For example: “Carbonic Acid Gas,” called also “Choke Damp” (by miners,) and “Fixed Air.”
“Carburetted Hydrogen,” called also “Fire Damp” (by miners), “Inflammable Air,” “Coal Gas,” and “Gas.”
“Iodine,” from Iōdēs, “Like a Violet,” (_Greek_,) a name suggested by its beautiful violet tint.
“Nitrous Oxide,” or “Protoxide of Azote” (terms expressive of its component elements), a gas discovered by Dr. Priestley, called also “Laughing Gas” (from its peculiar property discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy).
“Gas” is from a German word meaning “Breath, Air, Spirit,” &c. &c.
88 See Remarks in Adelung’s Mithridates on the Hebrew.
89 Some excellent observations on the subject of words thus formed by children occur in some late numbers of Chambers’s Journal.
90 This did not apply to the first four lines quoted above.
91 This is perfectly obvious in the Hebrew, and may be shown by Analysis in other Languages.