BY GEORGE DUNBAR, F.R.S.E. AND PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND MDCCCXXVII. AN INQUIRY, &c. IT may be thought proper at the commencement of a subject of this kind, to make a few preliminary observations respecting the people who are supposed to have first settled in Greece, and laid the foundation of the language of the country. It has been stated by different authors that the early if not the original inhabitants of Greece, were the Pelasgi, supposed to have been a tribe of Scythians, who, after leaving their deserts, settled in Thrace and Thessaly, and from these districts gradually spread themselves over the whole country. From them the Peloponnesus was denominated Pelasgia, as we learn from Strabo, (1. v. 221.) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (l. i. c. 17.) The old inhabitants of Atti A |