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—Aher and Aha; Melosa and Melrose,NOTES. 363Gillberg and Gilchrist;Ales and Hailes; Falkenaw and Falkirk; Coldenkirke andCowdenknows, &c. &c. &c. The reader will find <strong>the</strong>se synonimesand etymologies, with many more <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same preciousand immaculate description, vol. 1. p. 153— 154—286—287288, &c.A man who has got this Gothic mania into his head, hascertainlyreached <strong>the</strong> very last stage <strong>of</strong> etymological madness.Theaffinity only consists in three or four initial, medial, or final letters,and on <strong>the</strong> principle here laid down by him, he might wi<strong>the</strong>qual facility and propriety trace <strong>the</strong> strongest affinity betwixtHamikar and Hamilton ; Carthage and Carlaverock ; Achaia andAuchierarder ;Pentecost and Fentland; Aharimon and Aber.lemno; Carjiaim sixid Carnmanairn; Pannonia and Pananack;Balaena and Balantrae j Quatour.MiUe and Carmylie ; Camlifmses and Cambuslong ; Aro and Yarroxc, Salve and Solzcay^Caput and Caputh ; Pituitaria and Piiarrow ; Chili and Killimcranky; Campania and Campbelltown; Alt07ia and Altgrand;Acarnania and Aquharny ; Sanchoniathon and Sanquhar ; Jero.boam and Jersey ; Berosus and Bertie ; Bucolicon and Buchan ;Belisarius and Belfast; Armageddon and Armagh; Tanais andTain; Tyre and Tyrconnel; Fores diwd Forres ; Thurini khATurin; Delphinus a,nd Dahin ; Esca a.ndlEsk; Cumaron SindCameron; Kalliroos (Greek) and Culross; Mug il and MacgUl^Infernus and Inverness ; Goree and Gowrie ; Sincerus and SaintCj/rusy &c.I have thus presented to <strong>the</strong> reader a specimen cf Mr. Pinkar.ton's etymologies, and have added a few more constructed onhis own model, that mankind may duely estimate its immensemerits, and <strong>the</strong> incalculable benefits to etymological and historictruth, which must necessarily result from it. No wonderthat he under?alues Celtic etymology, when bis own is (to use hisown phrase) so super-superlaiive. Many cf our Celtic etymologistsare speculative and visionary enough, but Mr. Pinkartonhas outdone <strong>the</strong>m ail. Where is <strong>the</strong> Celt, from <strong>the</strong> first origin©f <strong>the</strong> name down to <strong>the</strong> present bear, who could have taken so

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