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ii6 Remarks on the Pf^elcb^ tiz.
in Italy, and n^uft have left many local names be-
hind them, fome of which are extant to this
day.
To conclude this tedious philological difcuflion :
it is certain that many words in ufe to this day
in the Highlands of Scotland, were once ufed in
common by the Britons of the South, and the an-
cient Celtae, though now difcontinued in the lan-
guage of Wales. From the whole I draw this
conclufion : that the Welfh may have loft in their
language the appellation of Albanich^ though
once common in their country, in the fame man-
ner that they loft the remarkable vocable Uifc^
and many others that couid be fpecified.
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