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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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cule dreh ortier Pcople, ic did degenerare inte
seretat Dialects. Belides thole Lour chaE arE
cheir LangiIASC: And IHe PreleNE COptIC OF SE.
Erptian Scems, boch From the Woras and che Cha-
racter, 1o be a Branch oF chis Family, and v 20
probably spread amongst chac Pcople in the Day.
NOR WWARY, is a Gist lesE BY a Man at his (OF Alexander che Great, uxon his conquerins ob
cheiri; tho Porrie conceire char there were ac
Couney lons betore liis Time.
2. The Fatin, etio ehis Be much oF ic a DC.
Eptings and Deriracions) had ancienr Pour se
veral Dialects; as Petrus Crinicus Mers out oE
Varro.
3. The Teuronie or German, is nou distin-
Suihed into Dpper and Lover. The Tpper hach
trro nocable Dialects: 1. The Danisto, Scandi-
an, or perhaps che Corhic; to Wrtich belones the
Languasc uled in Denmarte. Normay. Sneedland
and Istand. 2. The Saxon, eo wrhich apperiain
the sereral Languages ot etie Fnstisto, che Scots
4. The Slavonic is excendec, cho wich some
Variarion, etrouph many larse Territories,
Muscovia, Poland, Bohemia Vandalia, Croa-
tia, Fithuania; Dalmaria; and is said to be che
Vulear Laneuase used arrionest sixry sererai
NTatiOnS.
The Laneulases or lester Excene, are,
I. The Albanese, or OId Epirocie, nou ulec
in the Moumrainous ParrS OE Cipirus.
2. The FuroPan Fartar, Ox Scythian FrOM
which some conceire our trist to have liad its
As Cor ihe Turkist Tonere, etiac is originallo
rabic.
3. The tunsarian, used in che ercacest PaiE
Ot thac Kinsdom.
4. The Finnic, uled in Fintand and L apland.
3. The Cantabrian, uled anion est ehe Discain
6. Ttie trish, in treland, and trom chence
brouehie over inco lome Parrs oE, Scorland; cho
Mr. Camden vrould hare rhiis ro be a Deriraciom
trom cheWelst.
The OId Gaulith or Britist, Wohich 15 Vet
pereriea at atei egraai ae vertari in
deltros lae Arensct, and hindet c Opera
an Alienation oF Lands and Tenemens 10 Herodotus dorti mention Four several Dialects O
any Cuild, Corporation, Or Frarernier, cheir (che Tonic. The lnhabicanes oE Rbodes, Cyprus
Succettors, 25 Bistrops, Parsons, Vicars, (90. Crere, had eacti oF chem some Peculiaries in
Which may noc be done wichour che PingS Li-
cente, and rhe L Ord OE Che MIanHOF, Or OF itic
V’ins alone, il it be immediarels lioldes et
Deach, eo his Paris Church, For itie recompence
OF his Personal Trches and OHerinss, noc duly least 30000 Families oF Crecles planired in chac
Paid in his Lite rime. A Mortuary IS ROC PTO-
Perly and orisinally due to an Rcclehialticat In-
cumbent from anr, buc thole onty ot his own
Paristes, 25 the Corps passes chrough chem.
MOSAICK Work, Was ancieny used onty
in Parements, and besan in Rome about Sillas
exime; Wrho made a Paremene ot Mosaick WVori
at Preneste inthe Temple OE Forrune, 2bOur 170
Tears betore Christ. IE wras called Lithostroton,
In Creck OnIY a ScOnC PAVeMeNE; BUE IF IS UN-
derstood oE Fioures made or reprelented by In-
Pazitu OF mall Stones, Or rather pieces oF Stone
ot ditterent Colours; by the varieey oF which,
many Curious Figures mar DC WVrOUOHE. AFTeE
Ward it came cobe in Fachion tor rhe lncides ot) ehe Frisians, and cherhose on rhe Norrti OE Filve.
the W alIS oF ROOms; and nour adayscher ivorte
ir wich Sirells, ox (nall Pieces of Clals rarioust
Coloured and Figured:  Tis a verr Plealant ane
alastins Ormamene, uhen eis curiouns and ex
celleney done
MOTTIER Tongues, in Lain, Matricest in-
suae, are such Languages as scemto have no DC.
Pendance upon, Verirarion Trom, or AHini
Wich onc anocher.  Tis a Conjecture commony
receired. Thac ac che Contulion ot Languases
ac che Torver ot Babel, there ivere tormed 70.
Or 72 Sererally distinet Laniguases: Buc Bithop
Wilkins thinks eis probable chere ivere noc (o
manz, and thac at the Airst Dispersion Men didnor
divide into so manz Colonies. Burnon che Lan-
puages uled in the Woria, do tar exceed chac Original.
Nrumber: IF rou wwill beliere Pliny and Strabo,
chere as a Ponn in Colchos called Dioscuria, 1o no orher bur ile Asraric Fartar mixed wrich Ar-
Wtrich Men oF three hundred Nations, and a5 menian and Persian, Tome Crecte, and muchr A.
inany severat Lanouares, did RelOrE FOr Tra
dins. Some ot che American Fristorians relate,
Thac in every 80 Miles oF chac vast Counry.
and also in almost every parricular Valler oF
Peru, the Inhrabicanes had a distinet Languase,
or Mocher-Ponsue by chemselres. And Pur-
ehas cells uS, Piler. LIb. 8. Sect. 1. C ap. Y. ThaL
by Converse and Enquier, in the NOrihern ParES
Ot America, about Florida, he Found more than ers, Who lire neas the Ocean on che Pyrene FTills
1000 disterent Languages amonsst thic Inhabi- borderins borti uxon France and Spain.
ranes oF chose Places.
Joseph Scalizer astirms chere are no more chan
Fleven Mocher-Pongues uled in Furope; Ot
etrich Four are ot more general and large Ex
FeHE, and the Other SEVen OF a HaFEOWeF COm
Pals and Dse
2. The Grecke, wtrich as anciently oF very
Sreat PxtenE, not only in Furoxe, buc in Asia and
Eed, trhen cher are mix d wich such thines as juvere planed; by wtich Dispertion and Mix-
tion.
NIORTMATHE, a Perm in Faw, sionityins commonty noced; che Doric, Lonic, Kolie, Acic.
tim.
Parim. Buc by Custom in lome Places oE this rivarion from the Greck; (OF which the non
Kinsdom, cher are paid 10 che Parsons ot ortier Prench, Spanisto, and Tralian, are leverat OH.
Prane.
Africk 100, wohere sereral C0lories ot chac Darion