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from those two great Mother Tongues, by what immediate Branches they derive their descent, and what degree of affinity they severally bear to each other. This scheme of the Gothic Languages is copied from the Preface to Dr. Hickes’s Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ, &c. Oxon. 1689. 4to. this of the Celtic Tongues, from the best writers I have met with on the subject.