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450 Old Price's Remains. for introducing specimens of my native language^ an auriferous vein of Celtic, which I only lament that I, in common with most of my countrymen, have worked sadly too little; whilst I condole with those English linguists who, despising such a rich living mine close at hand, almost always " go farther and fare worse," in search of Philological treasures* So I condole with the florist, who is too fond of Dahlias and Pelargoniums to have an eye for our own "Alaw Wen "* and " Ffa Corsedd."f And so perhaps someliJeral miners, who have exchanged Dolgelle for California, may now be singing, "Mae'r enaidyn Meir- ionydd," and wishing they had hammered on contentedly "ym mherfedd gwlad Gwynedd gwyllt." The few non- native scholars who have studied Welsh at all—I may instance the present Bishops of Llandafif and St. David's, Rev. Joseph Baylee, Mr. Bruce Knight, Lady Guest, Pro¬ fessor Newman, and the late excellent Dr. Pritchard— have at least seen enough to be astonished at the general indifference of THE NATIVES to facts so truly interesting, kcll r\v eirvypa^ia o-^iaiv y. Query.—Whether even the the appoaching Rhuddlan Eisteddfod holds out any encouragement to critical research into the peculiarities of our mother-tongue ? To have exhibited the different coloured inks would have been very difficult, with a great addition to the ex¬ pense ; also, the printing of Comparative Translation in any way being extremely troublesome, and, even when most successful, very unlike the life, I have on every account reserved the principal illustrations «for an Appendix, in the form of autograph, by the aid of transfer paper. As to style, the exercises are just such as plodding Tyros might^be expected, to perpetrate for themsejves, and the * Water lily, Nymphaea alba. t Bogbean, Menyanthes trifoliata.