S. C. P.

[High and Low Dutch are vulgarisms to express the German and the

Dutch languages, which those nations themselves call, for the German

_Deutsch_, for the Dutch _Holländisch_. The latter is the language

which the Dutch colonists of the Cape carried with them, when that

colony was conquered by them from the Portuguese; and has for its

base the German as spoken before Martin Luther's translation of the

Bible made the dialect of Upper Saxony the written language of the

entire German empire.]

_"A Wilderness of Monkeys."_--Would you kindly inform me where the

expression is to be found: "I would not do such or such a thing for a

wilderness of monkeys?"

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