ART. XIV. AN OUTLINE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OTHER ANCIENT LANGUAGES FOR Developing PAGE THE PRIMITIVE Speech OF MANKIND ...... 216 XV. CONSTITUTIONS AND ORDINANCES OF THE ANCIENT BARDS AND MINSTRELS, TRANSLATED FROM DR. J. D. RHYS'S GRAMMAR ........ 283 XVI. OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE XX. AN EXTENT OF THE COUNTY OF ANGLESEY, TAKEN A.D. 1352 ... XXI. THE ANCIENT BRITISH LETTERS 336 ... 420 NOTICE TO READERS. It may be proper here to apprise the reader, that, throughout the following pages, v and F are substituted, in the Welsh, for F and FF, in conformity with a Resolution adopted at the last Anniversary of the CYMMRODORION, and of which the following is a transcript: "RESOLVED,―That this Society will henceforth, by all the means in its power, recommend and promote the substitution of the letter v for F, and of the letter F for FF, in Welsh orthography, as an alteration sanctioned as well by the practice of all other tongues, as by the ancient mode of writing the Welsh language itself; and as being, moreover, consonant with the value universally appropriated to the letters in question, with the exception only of the present anomalous usage in Wales, and which is, accordingly, productive of a confusion decidedly inimical to the interests of our national literature." This Resolution was proposed at a very numerous meeting, at which Lord Dynevor presided, and was carried unanimously. All notes in the following pages, having "ED. TR." affixed to them, are by the EDITOR OF THE TRANSACTIONS. |