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with the Welsh. Those, he says, had originally peopled all Scot- 

 land ; but, about two centuries before the Christian aera, were driven 

 to the south of Scotland by the Picts, a Gothic colony from Nor- 

 way, p. 18. He regards those North Cimbri ' as the ancestors of 

 the modern Welsh, who style themselves Cymri, and their language 

 Cymratg, to this day.' And he believes ' the original Gaelic in- 

 habitants had almost entirely evacuated the country, and retired 

 to Ireland.' 



Those Cimbri, on the other hand, occupied the present Somei*- 

 setshire in the second century. And South Wales was, on the ar- 

 rival of the Romans, in the possession of the Silures and Dimetse, 

 as North Wales was in that of the Ordovices.''^- These were all 

 Gallic or British tribes, and, if they had been vanquished by the 

 Cimbri, this event must have occurred after the second century ; 

 and Wales, if we believe Diodorus,''^- would have received one Gal- 

 lic tribe, in exchange for others of the same family ; which, how- 

 ever, is not true, for the Cimbri were a Gothic tribe, from whose 

 language, according to Hickes, the Icelandic, Norse, Swedish, and 

 Danish are derived.^'- 



But the British, with the almost common consent of historians, 

 are affirmed to have taken refuge in the sixth century, some in 

 Wales, some in Cornwall, and others in Armorica, after the Saxon 

 invasion of Britain.'^- And accordingly, in old Saxon records, they 

 are recognized as Gauls, as I had before observed, under the de- 

 nomination of Weallas and Corn-weallas, not of Cymri, Cimbri, or 

 Cambrians. And accordingly their language, which, conformable 



75. Ptolemy's Geog. 76 Whit. M. V. 2. p. 224. 



77. See the preface, to his grammat. Aug. Sax. and Mseso-Goth. ' Et ex Cimbrica/ 

 Islandica, Norwegica, Suedica, Danica deductce sunt.* 



78, Powel in his Welsh chronicle says, it occurred ' about the year of Christ 5SK).' 

 Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, by Girald de Barri, V. 1, p. 17*, 



