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Enough has been said in former pages respecting 

 the movements of the most eastern branch of these 

 colonists ; their wars, probably of several ages dura- 

 tion in the peninsula of India and of others still more 

 remote in date, who appear to have reached the south- 

 east coast of China, and traversed a great portion of 

 the Pacific. There were others whose early presence 

 in Africa is detected by a variety of customs among 

 the Abyssinian and even CaiFre nations, which we 

 have likewise no farther occasion to mention. Of the 

 tribes of Shelluhs in Morocco, whose Showiah dialect 

 is asserted to retain many Celtic words, it is not re- 

 quisite to say more than what has already been stated, 

 excepting that the existence of cromlechs and maen 

 stones along the coast, such as the Romans noticed by 

 the names of Philaenian altars, and the ancients like- 

 wise attest to have existed on the island of Cadiz, or 

 Gades, in Spain, are of themselves sufficient proof of 

 a primaeval coasting progress along the African shore, 

 which leaving colonies in Mauritania, now it may be, 

 mixed with Shelluh tribes, turned northward, marking 

 its progress in Portugal by the usual monuments, and 

 by the name of Portugal itself, as well as that of Gal- 

 licia (land of the Gallaici), where they came in contact 

 with the Finns or Finno Celts, from the north, whose 

 progress we have already mentioned. 



We now come to the march of the main body 

 of the Celtae, from their first departure, divided into 

 two great columns, one directing its course to the 

 northward of west, and the other appearing to have 



