43. vol. i. p. 55.)
L.
[Having had an opportunity of inspecting a copy of Hamelmann's
_Chronicle_, at present belonging to Mr. Quaritch, in which there is a
very interesting engraving of the horn in question (which may possibly
have been a Charter Horn), we are not disposed to pronounce it older
than the latter end of the fifteenth century. If, however, it is still
preserved at Copenhagen, some correspondent there will perhaps do us
the favour to furnish us with a precise description of it, and with the
various legends which are inscribed upon it.--ED.]
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GREEK PARTICLES ILLUSTRATED BY THE EASTERN LANGUAGES.
The affinity which exists between such of the vernacular languages of India
as are offshoots of the Sanscrit, as the Hindostanee, Mahratta, Guzeratee,
&c., and the Greek, Latin, German, and English languages, is now well known
to European scholars, more especially since the publication of the
researches of Vans Kennedy, Professor Bopp of Berlin, &c. Indeed, scarcely
a day passes in which the European resident in India may not recognise, in
his intercourse with the natives, many familiar words in all those
languages, clothed in an oriental dress. I am inclined also to think that
new light may be thrown upon some of the impracticable Greek particles by a
reference to the languages of the East; and without wishing to be
understood as laying down anything dogmatically in the present
communication, I hope, through the medium of your valuable publication, to
attract attention to this subject, and invite discussion on it.
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