exception of some German tribes, which crossed the Rhine ami 

 settled in Gaul and Britain, such was the relative situation of those 

 two oreat nations in tlic time of J. Caesar, Tacitus, and Ptolemy : 

 the Celtfe, occupying- the west of Europe as far as the south of 

 Gaul, were bounded on the east by the Germans. It may be in- 

 ferred, from the subsequent part of their history, that the west mi- 

 gration of the Celtte was caused by the superior prowess of those 

 Goths; and it may be presumed, that the Gothic encroachment 

 upon the territory of some Celtic tribes in Gaul compelled the dis- 

 possessed to seek other territories in Britain. A mutual hatred 

 seems to have prevented any friendly intercourse ; and this, in some 

 measure, may account for the Gavill never having learned the lan- 

 guage of the other, which differs as widely from it, as the Sclavonic 

 probably from either. 



In the endeavour to discover whence those opposite tribes came, 

 one step toward the discovery is obtained by ascertaining a road 

 which they had not taken. And, as in the pursuit of two stolen 

 trees, which, for the sake of distinction, I shall suppose to be of 

 different species, we follow that track, which the broken branches, 

 or even the fallen leaves, point out ; so, in the pursuit of those tribes, 

 we must endeavour to trace them from the parent stock to the 

 branches, and vice versa. 



The Gavill or inhabitants of Gaul were expressed in Latin by 

 the word Galli, and in Greek by Cdlai, which romanized, became 

 CelUe,^''- a word generally used to denominate the branches of this 

 people in all their migrations. For it appears, that, among the 

 ancient Greeks, tlie letters K and C were commutable with the 

 letter G. And among the French and Italians, who have no W 



37 Celtai is the Gl-eet denomination for Gavill, and Galli the Romaa; as we are called 

 English by ourselves, Anglois by the French, and Inglese by the Italians. 



