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The three nations, Etruscans, Ligurians, and Veneti, 

 called the river Eridanus, which each, in turn, had 

 possessed, by the names of Podan, Podines, Podinco 

 (the Po), the terminal particle being still abundantly 

 found in certain localities of Lapland. To these we 

 might join the kindred Illyrian tribes, both on the 

 Danube and the Adriatic, the pirate Liburni, with 

 their fast rowing galleys, the Carni, and other clans, 

 as before shown, mixed even with the Hellenic race ; 

 and all, like the true Finnic people, with remarkable 

 veneration for the dead, for sorcery, apparitions, and 

 human sacrifices. But for the present these circum- 

 stances may be passed over, as we shall have occasion 

 to revert to them in the sequel. 



Few vestiges of the Finnic people can now be traced 

 in the hill and mining regions of middle Europe, ex- 

 cepting perhaps in the Alpine, where the name of 

 Tschudi is still preserved in one or more families of 

 some distinction; and to the west, in the Highlands 



the fore-leg of the horse part, the whole standing on a 

 scroll with a ferule, evidently intended to support a lance. 

 It was found near Sidmouth, much worn by ages of attri- 

 tion in the wash of the sea. Again, a winged figure, sound- 

 ing a trumpet, having one knee bent, the other resting on 

 a globe, supported by a ferule, eight inches high, found in 

 the bog of Allen in Ireland. Also numerous specimens of 

 small brazen two and three horned bulls, ensigns of the 

 Sequani, Taurini, &c., bas-relief figures of champions, in 

 copper, found in Tyrol, and silver elastic spiral weighing 

 scales, with Roman stamp upon them, found in the Baltic ; 

 all, excepting the last, bearing evidence of Etruscan or 

 barbarian workmanship. 



