CROMLECH.

(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)

In No. 328 of the MIRROR, you mistake in spelling _cromlech_; the

last syllable is always written _lech_, not _leh_; neither is

it derived from _crom_ and _leac_, the Irish, but from _crom_ and _llech_,

the Celtic, of which the Irish is the most corrupted, and the present

Welsh the most pure dialect. _Llech_ signifies a stone in Welsh, and is

pronounced in a way peculiar to the Welsh; when simple it is _llech_,

when compounded _lech_.

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