y first saw these beautiful tracts, so much
subject to inundation, like the flat borders of their own rivers in the
East. =HEBREW= (car) a pasture, is found in Isaiah, xxx. 23. Psalm
lxv. 14, &c., and although =HEBREW= (kicar) is simply translated
"plain" in the established version, and Gesenius would, still more
vaguely, render it "circuit, surrounding country," (from =HEBREW=, in
Arabic, _to be round_,) yet I suspect the words come from the same root,
and have the same meaning. Thus, Genesis xiii. 10. =HEBREW= might
literally be rendered "And Lot raised his eyes, and saw all the carr of
the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Jehovah
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah; like the land
of Mitzraim, as thou approachest Zoar." How natural, that the Keltic or
Kymric tribes should behold, in the Trent pastures, the resemblance of
the plains on the banks of the Jordan, the Nile, the Tigris, and
Euphrates--(for the term =HEBREW= _garden of Jehovah_ most probably
denotes Mesopotamia, in the very ancient fragments collected by Moses to
form the book of Genesis)--and should denote them by the same name!

=ARABIC=, khaw[=a]r, also signifies "low or sloping ground," in
Richardson's Arabic and Persian Dictionary; and "Carr, a bog, a fen, or
morass," occurs in Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary. The word I conceive is
thus clearly traced to its Keltic or Eastern origin.

XIV.

CROWD.

Sir John Hawkins, in his highly curious "History of Music" (vol. ii.
page 274) says "The _Cruth_ or _Crowth_" was an instrument "formerly in
common use in the principality of Wales," and is the "prototype of the
whole fidicinal species of musical instruments." "It has six strings,
supported by a bridge, and is played on by a bow." "The word _Cruth_ is
pronounced in English _Crowth_, and corruptly _Crowd_." "L