Item 3. - Letter to Mr Urban answering the observations of Philistor in (?) The Gentleman's Magazine for June and July.

A letter to Mr Urban answering the observations of Philistor in (?) The Gentleman's Magazine for June and July. Reference to Mr Evans's Collection [i.e. ? Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764)]. The writer maintains that the difference between the Welsh dialects is not as great as between the dialects of any two English counties, even the adjoining ones of Kent and Middlesex where he has at several times resided many years of his life. He is by birth a Southwalian, but has resided a considerable time in N. Wales, in every county of it, and he dares (to) assert that he knows something of the matter. The N. & S. Walians never experience the least difficulty in conversing with each other. 'The difficulty of translating Taliesin &c. arises from the great number of obsolete words not understood in any part of Wales with regard to the structure of his Language it is purely according to the Silurian, an old Welsh Bard of the 15th century says that Taliesin was born in Tir Iarll.' In the autograph of E. W. In the margin are the words 'on Pinkerton'. Torn.