Chaldean/Ancient Cornish language

“A study of those Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech.”
The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phoenician traders in tin. He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis.
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