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THE

CAMBRIAN TOURIST,

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OR,

POST-CHAISE COMPANION

THROUGH

WALES;

CONTAINING CURSORY SKETCHES OF THE

WELSH TERRITORIES,

AND

A DESCRIPTION OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND GAMES

OF THE NATIVES.

EIGHTH EDITION.

THE WHOLE CORRECTED, AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WHITTAKER & CO.

AVE MARIA LANE.

1834.

ACCOUNT OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE.

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The force of the Letters—List of Primitive Words—Character of the Language and of the Poetry.

It is supposed that there were anciently, in the Welsh or British Language, ssss1 no less than thirty-six letters, sixteen of which were radicals, that expressed the primary sounds; and the rest, modulations or dependents on them. For each of these, it is probable that there was formerly a simple appropriate character; but, since the invention of printing, and the introduction of Roman letters, it has been necessary, for want of a sufficient variety of cast for the purpose, to adopt two, and in one instance even three, of those letters, to express one sound or character, by which much of the simplicity and beauty of the proper alphabet has been lost.

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