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those adopted by other nations, and Reul was their 

 most ancient guiding star at sea. But, with the excep- 

 tion of the Liburnians, they were no longer mariners 

 than the swarming period of their departure from 

 Asia ; for in subsequent accounts we find them move 

 by land; and if they were the same nation as the 

 Llogrwys, or Logrians, of British legend, they had 

 once, at least, a tribe seated on the Llobregat in 

 Spain, and no doubt were in part the migrators who, 

 on retiring northward, crossed the Cevennes to the 

 head waters of the river Loire (Ligeris), which they 

 decorated with their own national appellation. Here 

 they were joined by another, the Illyrian, Venetic, 

 Henyd, Wend, or Gwyned tribe or asseciation, for it 

 may have originated entirely in the commercial spirit 

 of the more enlightened persons of several tribes, and 

 even whole clans. 



The Illyrian Alps, placed between Pannonia and the 

 Adriatic, contain a variety of nations, which, like those 

 of Western Caucasus, might claim to be aboriginal, if 

 they also were not known to have been colonies, which, 

 in remote ages, came up the Danube, and were subse- 

 quently driven to the mountains, while others passed 

 through the Bosphorus from the Black Sea, or came 

 from Asia Minor, and skirted the coasts of Greece. 

 Strabo mentions not less than eleven tribes, some of 

 which we find again on the coasts of Colchis, and 

 others are now admitted to be Scythian and Finnic. 

 The Veneti, Carnes, &c., belong to this group. 



