Latin and Cumrian tongues. The proof is this: If there
are derivative words in the Latin, of which we must seek the primitives
in the Cumrian, and if these primitives be shown to furnish an
explanation of many words before inexplicable on etymological
principles. For example, if the word 'to tread' under various forms be
found, with the meaning 'to trample with the feet,' in most of the
western languages of Europe, and have no noun to base itself upon in
these languages, and yet the noun 'traed the feet' be found in one of
them, the inference is irresistible that the verb in all its forms was
derived from this root. To deny this would be equivalent to a denial
that the Latin verb _calcare_ came from _calx_, 'the heel.' In the
following list, such words alone, with a few exceptions for the sake of
etymological illustration, have been introduced. It might have been
indefinitely extended, but the difficulty was to confine the examples
within moderate limits."--Williams on _One Source of the Non-Hellenic
Portion of the Latin Language_.[2]

This eminent scholar supplies sixty-two, with explanatory notes, and
subjoins a list of sixty-three. Under the example "Occo, occare, _to
harrow_," he observes:

"Persons who wish to draw subtle inferences say that all the terms of
the Romans connected with agriculture may be referred to a Greek
source, while the terms expressive of war and hunting are non-Hellenic.
The induction fails completely in both parts, as might easily be shown.
When Caesar landed in Britain, the natives were agriculturists, densely
planted. And Halley proved, that the harvest which Caesar's soldiers
reaped had ripened at the average period of a Kentish harvest in his
days. Assuredly then the Britons had not the agricultural names to
learn from the Romans of an after age."

"I begin," says Newman, "with the country and domestic animals, which
will show how very far from the truth Niebuhr was, when he imagined
that in words connected with 'the gentler pursuits of life' the Roman
language has peculiarly extensive agreement with the Hellenic."

When your correspondent T. H. T. says--

"Professor Newman, in his _Regal Rome_, has drawn attention to the
subject; but his induction does not appear sufficiently extensive to
warrant any decisive conclusion respecting the position the Celtic
ho