414 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



In the peninsula they were known by the names of 

 Argives, Achaians, and Arcadians. They built more 

 than one Argos ; and if the name of Larissa is to be 

 taken as a sure indication of their presence, they 

 would be found extended from Nineveh to the confines 

 of Egypt, Spain, and Southern Germany. There were 

 Pelasgians in Crete, and the western tribes of the race 

 had Finnic affinities in Upper Italy, not less than at 

 least a partial community of opinions and speech with 

 the Celtic and Scytho Celtic nations. In Syria they 

 may have constructed the enormous ramparts of Tor- 

 tosa with stones, some of which are not less than 

 thirty feet in length, by ten or twelve in thickness, 

 and at so remote a date, that the place is named in 

 Genesis, by the designation of Arpad, or Arvedi, 

 (chap, x.) 



Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, being all to the 

 north of Greece properly so called, and west of the 

 Bosphorus, nations moving to the south came across 

 the Danube, from Dacia, as well as from Asia Minor, 

 without the route of their movement being known in 

 Greece. Many came westward in fleets of canoes, 

 from the Euxine and the coasts of Asia Minor, by 

 Rhodes, Carpathos, Casos, and Crete, and therefore 

 they became greatly mixed by the captives they made 

 in piratical wars, as well as by peaceful alliances. 

 The noble typical races that had come direct from the 

 east, had been broken in upon during the march by 

 northern and by southern wanderers, and forced to 

 deviate from the line of progress by deserts, inland 



