176 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. II. 



CELTIC, ROMAN AND GREEK TYPES STILL EXISTENT 

 IN FRANCE. WITH NOTES ON THE LANGUE D'OC. 



By Arthur Harvey, 

 Delegate of the Canadian Institute to the Montpellier Congress of i8go. 



(Read ijth December, i8go.) 



1. Introductory remarks. 7. Frederic Mistral and his " Mireio." 



2. The Celtic survival in Brittany. g. Sundry Montpellier items. 



3. Survival of Goths and Iberians in the ^ • j • 1 j 

 ■' _ 9. Roman remams and survivals at and 



Pyrenees. ^t • 



rr. , , • o -.T, x^ near Nimes. 



4. Troglodytes m S. W. France. 



5. The Langue d'oc. ^°- ^he Greek Type, with the history of 



6. Report on the Montpellier Congress of 



Romance Philologers. 



the settlement of Marseilles. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



The University of Montpellier (Mons Pessulinus), was founded A. D. 

 1289, by Pope Nicholas IV, who united, in studio generali, the faculties 

 of medicine, arts and law. Its sex-centennial was celebrated in May of 

 this year and in a becoming manner. Among those invited to \.hQ fetes 

 were many men distinguished in literary and scientific circles, so it was 

 thought fit to hold special meetings of the local learned societies. As 

 the Canadian Institute corresponds with the Montpellier Societe des 

 Langues Romanes, we received an invitation to the Congress held under 

 its auspices, and I was honored with the pleasant duty of responding to 

 it. I am thus called on for a Report, and in the hope to make it 

 interesting, I incorporate with it some remarks on the permanence of 

 race characteristics in several parts of Europe : offering also some 

 observations on the Romance language. 



THE CELTIC SURVIVAL IN BRITTANY. 



We had scarcely left New York, my wife and I, on the Chateau 

 Lafite, for Bordeaux, via Santander, when this question of race-character 

 came up. I asked from what part of France the sailors chiefly hailed. 

 " All from Brittany," came the rapid answer, " // n'y a que /es Bretons 

 qui naviguentr I was aware that in our early records, the cahiers of the 



