America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D.

t of inquiry. It is one of the safest guides in an attempt to distinguish the

nalogous to the Gauls, they called their country Waels or Wales, and its people Waelsh or Welsh; and these names have continued to the present time. But this people always have called themselves "Y Cymry," of which the strictly literal meaning is aborigines. They call their language "Y Cymraeg,"-the primitive tongue. Celt, meaning a covert or shelter, and Gaul, meaning an open plain or country, are terms applied to various subdivisions by which the Cymric race have been known.

o gather a vast store of knowledge respecting its inhabitants and their early ancestors. The su

the Cimmerii, migrated thither from the great fountain

e bands, each in a more advanced st

, peculiar arts and superstitions, marking their settl

th the vestiges of tumuli, mounds, skulls, rude utensi

ble, and refined as it was two thousand years ago, when it existed alongside the Greek and Latin, both of which it antedates and sur

ng the vale of Glamorgan, "'Dim Saesenaig!' (No English! No English!) from every dyke-

n it. Upon the principle that might is right, nations have been forced from their own soil, but with a most passionate tenacity they have still clung to their native tongue. True, there have been languages which hav

dependence; and yet there is at present preserved in the cathedral of St. Asaph, North

ment is t

rd the Fir

A.D. 1283;

Rhuddlan

the Principa

Rights and

u the rebels can withstand my army?" He replied, "King, your power may to a certain extent harm and enfeeble this nation, but the anger of God alo

language and literature will survive, and the names will continue fixed to assert the antiquity and greatness of her people. More than half the names borne by the population of England are of Cymric origin or derivation.

for Thames (the sound of d being like that of t): hence, a pool or lake on the Thames. The low flat on the east side of London, known as "The Isle of Dogs," now a part of

land for North Cymbri-land. Aber is the mouth of a river, Anglicized into harbor: hence there is Aber-Conway, Aberdeen. There is scar

gland, notwithstanding the incessant boasts of the Saxon, who was a barbarous savage when he arrived, and who di

ce throughout Europe, observe the ancient geogra

parated, insulated. This mountain-chain has borne this name from the earliest human re

lly, a sea with a head or source, but insulated and without an outlet. Any

nded as k, and the u as e), which means to bend or curve; literally, a cir

, grand, sublime, and p

from ar-y-m?r

alled the Wendi, and their descendants speak at the present time a slightly-corrupted Welsh language. Bautzen, in Bavaria, and Glogau, in Prussia, are old Cymric towns; and an eminent German scholar has shown what ancient Cymric relics are to be fou

ncluded that another branch of the Cymric race must have gone eastward from the Caucasus and penetrated into India. Sir William Jones, a son of a Welshman, translated these Institutes of Menu,

yptian, etc.) and the Indo-European languages is distinctly shown. And, as will be subsequently proved, a large number of words have been found in use by the aborigines

east to west, preceding all other races-the Teutonic, Sarmatian, etc.-by long intervals of time. From the certain data of history these things are placed beyond doubt,-by Herodotus, C?sar, and others. Would it be surprising, then, if, in