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field of conflict is thus narrowed, and the dispute will be the 
sooner decided in proportion to the closeness of the lists. If 
there be any stout-hearted Teuton, who will persist in still claim- 
ing these nations as of his immediate race, let him go over the 
ground over which I have travelled, and select the Bergs, the 
Hams, the Forts, the Bachs, the Dens, which must be still found 
there, if those hills were peopled by his race. Tor, Wick, and 
even Briga, are common to both races, and would, if brought 
forward, prove nothing. One thiug, also, he must not do; he 
must not bring names from Bohemia, nor from the right bank of 
the Danube, as far as Illyricum, nor from modern Hungary, nor 
from the vicinity of the Cimbric Chersonese, as all these coun- 
tries were once held by people of the Cumrian race. 
If then the Cumri and the Umbri were the same people, it 
may be asked, what became of the letter C in the name of the 
latter ? I cannot tell; but I know that the initial x or y was very 
loose not only in the Greek, where we have Tai:a and cc for the 
earth zo, and i» for going, ziyeve and izaw for venio and inve- 
nio, caevdw and xedevdos for go and gait; but also among the La- 
tins, where we have cocles and ocles (see Varo under the word) 
for a one-eyed man, and Caulon and Aulon, significant of the same 
thing in Magna Grecia. Among the Cumri the guttural is still 
looser, as they drop it to express a difference even of gender, as 
goleu, light, ei oleu, his ight. But the Latins probably dropped 
it, because the Greeks of the historical era wrote ouBeio. and op- 
(20, whence fashion prevailed, and the word became disguised. 
In older times, the Greeks themselves wrote it xipwegio, as we 
find in the Odyssey. The mythos, by which the author of that 
poem places them in utter darkness, only tells us that they were 
placed in what was to him the extreme west. For as the east, 
eveos, was the house of light ews, so ZeQugo, the west, was the house 
of misty darkness (ZoQos zegoeis). Eruorus, therefore, following 
' Quoted by Srrazo. Lib. v. page 244. 
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