PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIFTH EDITION. In this edition the general catalogue of the affinities of the Anglo-Saxon language has been enlarged; and lists are added of those which the author has observed between many of its words and the corresponding terms in the Arabic, the Hebrew, the Chinese, the Sanscrit, the Georgian, the Malay, the Mantchou, the Japanese, the Caribbee, the Turkish, the Susoo, the Angola, the Tonga, and the Lapland tongues. The analogies he traced with the Persian, Zend, and Pehlvi are not inserted with the above in these volumes, because they were sent to the Royal Society of Literature, and may be printed in the next publication of its Transactions. THE Vindication of the antient Welsh Bards, and the Essay on the Antiquity of Rime, were printed with the fourth edition of this work, and are also added to the present, because they are both connected with that portion of the British History which this work comprises. 32. Red Lion Square, October 1. 1827. TABLE OF CONTENTS TO THE FIRST VOLUME. The early Division of Mankind into the civilised and The Keltic distinguished from the Gothic tribes Dr. Percy's table of their different languages. Three great streams of population in Europe Three genera of languages in Europe The Gothic, Scythian, or Teutonic Kimmerians the earliest inhabitants of Europe Their movements when attacked by the Scythians His first expedition to Britain. Successes of the emperor Claudius Vespasian and Titus in Britain Boadicea's struggle for independence Saxons first mentioned by Ptolemy Other tribes omitted by Tacitus The Scythian, or Gothic, population of Europe |