acular, and we find the same
apathy on the part of the Church of England in Cornwall as in Wales
and Ireland. Unfortunately the Methodist movement came at a time when
it was too late to save the language. By 1600 Cornish had been driven
into the western parts of the duchy and in 1662 we are informed by
John Ray that few of the children could speak it. Lhuyd gives a list
of the parishes in which Cornish was spoken, but goes on to state that
every one speaks English. In 1735 there were only a few people along
the coast between Penzance and Land's End who understood Cornish, and
Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole, who died in 1777, is commonly stated to
have been the last person who spoke it, though Jenner seems to show
that there were others who lived until well into the 19th century who
were able to converse in the dialect. However, the modern English
speech of West Cornwall is full of Celtic words, and nine-tenths of
the places and people from the Tamar to Land's End bear Cornish names.
Celtic words still in use are to be found in Jago's _Dialect of
Cornwall_ (Truro, 1882); thus the name for the dog-fish is _morgy_,
"sea-dog."

AUTHORITIES FOR CORNISH.--A mass of details about Cornish is collected
in H. Jenner's _Handbook of the Cornish Language_ (London, 1904). (Cf.
J. Loth's review in the _Revue celtique_, xxvii. 93.) Lhuyd's
_Archaeologica Britannica_ (1707) contains a grammar of the language
as spoken in his day, and a _Sketch of Cornish Grammar_ is to be found
as an appendix to Norris's _Ancient Cornish Drama_. A dictionary was
published by R. Williams entitled _Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum_
(Landovery, 1865), to which W. Stokes published a supplement of about
2000 words in the _Transactions of the London Philological Society_
for 1868-1869. We may also mention the _English-Cornish Dictionary_,
by F.W.P. Jago (Plymouth, 1887), and a _Glossary of Cornish Names_, by
J. Bannister (Truro, 1871). W. Stokes published a Glossary to _Beunans
Meriasek_ in the _Archiv fur celtische Lexikographie_, i. 101, and
important articles by J. Loth have appeared in the _Revue celtique_,
vols. xviii. to xxiv. W.S. Lach-Szyrma, "Les Derniers Echos de la
langue cornique," _Revue celtique_, iii. 239 ff. H. Jenner, "Some
Rough Notes on the Present Pronunciation of Cornish Names," _Rev.
celt._ xxiv. 300-305.

III. THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT PICTS.--The evidence from which we can