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——;Coir-a'-Chmthaich. 225In deep warm nnoks and tufts of heather,Sheltered by knolls from the wind and sleetAnd there from their beds, in the dew of the morning,Uprose the doe and the stag of ten,And the tall cliffs gleamed, and the morning reddenedThe Coire Cheathaich—the Misty Glen!COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR—THE GAELIC NUMERALS.[The following is the first of a series of papers upon ComparativeGrammar, which we intend to publish in successive numbersof the Rei'iew.]I. The cardinal numbers.1. Aon (one).Aon for ae}i = 01d Gael. Sen and din for prehistoric oinos,which agrees with Old Lat. oinos (one), Gr. olvo?, oivi'i (one), Goth.ains, A.S. dn, Eng. one. The common Indo-Europ. base, accordtoFick, is aina (cf. Wort., i. 505) related to the Skr. pron. ena(cf. Bopp's Comp. Gramm., i. 416). Lat. rlmcs — Old La,t. oinos.On Gr. oiVo? see Curt. Gr. Etym., p. 320. The Slav. inU = *enUfrom *aina (cf Schleicher's Compend., p. 479). The Brit, isun = oin.Aon is declined as follows :Sing. nom. aon, gen. aoin, dat. aon, ace. aon, voc. aoin ;Plur.nom. aona, gen. aon, dat. aonaibh, ace. aona, voc. aona.Old Gael, den or oin is declined as follows :Sing. nom. den or oin, gen. fem. aine or dine, dat. din, ace. den.2. Dd (two).D(i = 0\(i. Gael, dd or d'Mb=*clva, which agrees with Skr. dva,dvdn (two), Zend dva (two), Gr. Sua and Lat. duo, from a commonGraeco-Lat. base diw (Fiek, ii. 131) = *dvd, Slav, dva, Litli. dvi(fem.), Goth. masc. tvi, fem. tvos, neut. tva, Ice. tvei-r, A.S. Uva,Eng. tivo.The Old Brit, forms dou, deii. Mod. dwj, show, as does, likewise,the lengthening of d in Gael, dd, that primitive v has beendropped. Lat. 6is (twice) = *cZi'i-5 = Skr. 'Zy is (twice). The Indo-Europ. base is diui or di:a.In the modern language, dd takes the dat. after it, as ddp