Excerpt from Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of "the Gentleman's Magazine" From 1731-1868
Remarks on the language of Biscay and Ireland, 1759, pp. 378-380. Language of North and South Wales, 1769, p. 127; 1770, pp. 152.
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