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plundering and kidnapping, on both sides of the 

 .ZEgean, and perhaps as far as the shores of Syria 

 and of Egypt, it is probable that, even at the dawn 

 of history, the maritime Greeks were a very mixed 

 race. On the other hand, the Dorians may well 

 have preserved the original type; and their famous 

 migration may be the earliest known example of 

 those movements of the Aryan race which were, in 

 later times, to change the face of Europe. Analogy 

 perhaps justifies a guess, that those ethnological 

 shadows, the Pelasgi, may have been an earlier 

 mixed population, like that of Western Gaul and 

 of Britain before the Teutonic invasion. At any 

 rate, the tall blond long-heads are so well repre- 

 sented in the oldest history of the Balkan penin- 

 sula, that they may be credited with the Aryan 

 languages spoken there. And it may be that the 

 tradition which peopled Phrygia with Thracians 

 represents a real movement of the Aryan race into 

 Asia Minor, such as that which in after years car- 

 ried the Gauls thither. 



The difficulties in the way of a probable identi- 

 fication of the people among whom the various 

 dialects of the Latin group developed themselves, 

 with any race traceable in Italy in historical 

 times, are very great. In addition to the Italic 

 " aborigines " northern Italy was peopled by 

 Ligurian brunet broad-heads; with Gauls, prob- 

 ably, to a large extent, blond long-heads; with 

 Illyrians, about whom nothing is known. Besides 



