RT.

Warmington.

_Cou-bache_ (Vol. v., p. 131.).--In MR. SINGER'S note on the word

_cou-bache_, in the enumeration of the cognate words which would appear

to contradict the usual interpretation, he would seem to have forgotten

the Greek Βήσσα, which confirms it, and has precisely the

meaning of a shaded mountain valley, and certainly belongs to the same

tribe of the Indo-Germanic languages as the pure Saxon bæccha.

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