USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Language in Old Bible Identified as That of Wales. EUGENE FARLEY'S quest to discover the tongue in which his 1698 Bible is printed has come to an end, thanks to the publicity given by the Mercury Herald's story last Tuesday. The Bible is printed in Welsh. That has been difinitely established by three seperate individuals who recognized their mother-tongue and made personal calls to the editorial rooms to tell the writer of the article, And all are going to make a pilgrimage to Milpitas to personally see and reverently turn the pages of the Good Book, more than two and a quarter centuries old. First came Mr. Wyeth, who despite mis-spelled words definitely established its identity as Welsh. A day later J. W. Davies, of 714 Coe Avenue, whose Welsh father and mother came to America many years ago and settled in Ohio, called to verify Mr. Wyeth's findings. Mr. Davies readily read and transcribed the four verses quoted in the article, and told of a similar volume which his parents brought with them from Wales and cherished during their long life in their new home. And yesterday T. W. Rees, of 285 South Twelfth street, also of Welsh descent, added his identification. Mr. Rees is inclined to believe the book is not as old a version as the date on the cover would indicate, basing his opinion on the fact that the double s's are not connected as in all old editions--the double consonants appearing in the more ancient books as fs, joined together, Probably about 100 years old, is his verdict. He has a hyprthesis as to how the Bible reached California, too. During the gold rush days of '49 and '50 many Welshmen--miners in thier own country--joined in the wild rush to California gold fields, some of them bringing their families and household goods. Mr. Farley's Bible may have been, and possably was, brought here at the time. Other Welshmen, according to Mr. Rees, immigrated in Virginia and Carolina on the Atlantic coast in the early settlement of those colonies, and even today many Welsh bo "Welsh is the language God gave Adam," commented Mr. Reese humorously, "and there are still a few left who are entitled to use it."