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and which consists of a survey of the inhabitants of the 

 countries to be examined in local order, and from the facts 

 furnished by such a survey he has afterwards drawn induc- 

 tions as to the relations of kindred between nations. This 

 plan he has adopted in preference to that of most other 

 writers, who have traced the tribes as branches coming off 

 from the great parent stems or races. 



He divides the tribes occupying Europe and Asia into 

 the three following groups and families. 



First Group. — The Syro- Arabian race, by other writers 

 called the Semeitic. 



Second Group. — The Indo-European or Iranian nations, 

 between the languages of which an affinity may be traced, 

 so that they have all been referred to two closely allied 

 branches. To the one, the Median or Northern, belong the 

 Persian and Germanic languages ; to the other, the south- 

 ern, the Sanskrit, and the Classic languages of Greece and 



Italy. 



The Third Division constitutes the Allophylian races, 

 the different groups of which, including the Turanian 

 nations of Asia, and some tribes in Spain, and in the North 

 of Europe, are all aliens to the stock and lineage of the 

 Indo-European races. 



The Celtic race, which forms a branch of the Indo-Euro- 

 pean group, occupied the greater part of Spain, ancient 

 Gaul ; also extensive districts about the Alps, in Noricum, 

 Pannonia, Illyricum, and on the lower Danube. The 

 Cimbri, the ancient inhabitants of Denmark, were probably 

 also Celts. 



" It has been generally considered as certain, that the 

 " whole population of Britain was derived from Gaul. An- 

 " cient writers however, have afforded us no direct testimony 

 " that may be looked upon as conclusive upon this subject, 

 " and such an inference can only be collected from topogra- 

 " phical names, from the history of languages, and from the 



