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approximate form to correctness, where they are known; and 

 where we have only k few words and other indications of nation- 

 ality; that we may still so arrange them, by supposed affinities, 

 as will at least offer a clear notion of the relative connection of 

 the nations enumerated, with the parent races and with each 

 other. 



In this point of view, the adulterations of the Gomerian tongue 

 will be found classed by names, according to the nature and 

 extent of the deterioration it is supposed to have received. 



I. Gomerian. The language in its presumed perfect forms. 

 That is with so little of Scythic and Semitic as to lead to the 

 conclusion that, words common to all the three belong to the 

 last original Caucasian. This tongue may have been spoken 

 in various dialects by the Cyclopians, the Siculians, the Lestri- 

 gons, the Cabiri, the Telchini, the Cappadocians, the Colchians, 

 the Absynthians, the Cynetae, the Liburnians, the Venedi, the 

 Ligurians, the first Cyprians, the Armoricans of the South, the 

 Gallaicans, the Lusitanians, the Bastuli, the Silures of Britain, 

 and perhaps the Turdetan. 



II. Gomerian Aberrant tongues, mixed with dialects not 

 ascertained ; the Cantabrian, the Basque, the Asturian, the Sho- 

 wiah or Shelluh of Africa, the Finnic and Lapland. 



III. Keltic or Celtic. Gomerian tongue with an evident ad- 

 mixture of Scythic dialects. The first Armenian, the first Gal- 

 latian, the Celtiberian, the Umbrian. The Pontic ? the Carian? 



IV. Celto Scythic. Dialects where the Gomerian and Scythic 

 are mixed in nearly equal proportions. The first Iberian, first 

 Albanian, the Lydian, the Lycian, the Phrygian, the Thracian, 

 the Thessalian, the Pelasgic, the Volscian, the Gallic of Gaul, 

 the first Belgian, the first Latin, the Hellenic . 



V. Celto-Gothic, Cymbric or Cymmerian, where the Gothic 

 dialects of the Scythic greatly predominated over the Gomerian, and 

 comprehending the oldest languages of the North- East, North, 

 and North- West of Europe, The Tauriccymmerian, the primi- 

 tive Scandinavian, the Cymbric^ the Frisic, the second Belgic, 

 the Francic, the Ilevonic, or dialect of the Upper Rhine, the 

 Dacian, the Waldensic, the Rhasenic, afterwards mixed with the 

 Etruscan, and perhaps the Bur-Gundian. 



VI. Celto-Semitic. Where the Celtic was mixed with 

 Semitic : the Phoenician, the Punic of Carthage, the dialects of 

 Libanus or of the ancient Druses, the Etruscan ; the second 

 Cypriot, the Leuco- Syrian, the Barrabra of Africa and the 



