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or less prevalence of the Cymric type, as it is to be traced in these 
different countries, were supplied by the author. 
(Qdly), The Gaulish, or Gaelic races,—According to Dr Edwards, 
the head is round, so as to approach in a manner to a spherical 
form ; the forehead is moderate, a little swelled out, and retreating 
towards the temples; the eyes are large and open; the nose, in 
tracing it from the depression at its origin, is nearly straight, or 
without any marked curvature, and rounded at the extremity; the 
chin is also rounded. Lastly, the height is moderate; which, as 
Thierry, in his Histoire des Gaulois, first shewed, is an important 
historical distinction : for whenever the Romans spoke of the gigantic 
height of the Gauls, they meant their Cymric, and not their Gaelic 
foes. It was also explained that the moral type of the Gauls 
differed much from that of the Cymric race. 
In considering the claims of the Gaelic race to be ranked as 
aboriginal in Britain, the author entered upon two questions, (#) 
their original sojourning place, and (b) their course of migration. 
(a) The Asiatic cradle of the Gaelic race.—The author, after 
noticing the suspicion of Baron Larrey, that Arabia was to be thus 
considered, as well as the various opinions on this subject, advanced 
by Vallancey, Dr O’Conor, Sir William Betham, and others, was 
inclined to believe that the primitive Gauls were a polished and 
civilized people, originally dwelling on the eastern coast of the 
Mediterranean, who, as maritime adventurers, visited the west of 
Europe on objects of traffic, particularly for the sake of the precious 
metals. He did not consider it as necessary to this opinion, that 
they should be identified with the Phoenicians, or any other nation 
equally maritime ; but left this question to be determined by more 
satisfactory evidence than has hitherto been adduced, resulting from 
a comparison of physical characters. It was also observed, that the 
leading physical characters of the Gael, namely, the form of the 
head and features, appear in the figures of certain sculptured 
monuments of the very early period of Rameses the Third, which, 
from a discordancy in other respects, have greatly puzzled both 
Champollion, and Rosellini. These figures of a civilized people, 
richly attired, are referred to inhabitants of Canaan or its confines. 
(b) The course of Gaelic migration to the West—The author was 
disposed to consider, that evidence of the westerly course of Gaelic 
migration might probably be found in the commercial settlements 
which early maritime tribes may have formed on the Mediterranean 
coasts and islands. He, accordingly, adverted to the remark of 
Baron Larrey, relative to the identity of the western Arabs with 
Gaulish races,—to the assertion of Gesenius, that the Numidian 
language was a pure, or very nearly pure, Hebrew, such as was 
spoken by the ancient Canaanites or Phoenicians,—and to various 
Clyclopean structures in Malta, on the African coast, and elsewhere, 
similar to those which characterise the westerly countries of the 
