Come away! for the midsummer sun grows strong,
And the life of the lily may not be long."
Anon.
Derivation of Britain (Vol. viii., p. 344.).—Since my last reference to this matter (Vol. viii., p. 445.) I find that the derivation of the name of Britain from Barat-anach or Brat-anach, a land of tin, originated in conjecture with Bochart, an oriental scholar and French protestant divine in the first half of the seventeenth century. It certainly is a very remarkable circumstance that the conjecture of a Frenchman as to the origin of the name of Britain should have been so curiously confirmed, as has been shown by Dr. Hincks, through an Assyrian medium.
G. W.
Stansted, Montfichet.
Derivation of the Word Celt (Vol. viii., p. 271.).—If C. R. M. has access to a copy of the Latin Vulgate, he will find the word which our translators have rendered "an iron pen," in the book of Job, chap. xix. v. 24., there translated Celte. Not having the book in my possession, I will not pretend to give the verse as a quotation.[[2]]
T. B. B. H.
Footnote 2:[(return)]
24. Stylo ferreo, et plumbi laminâ, vel celte sculpantur in silice?