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arrival. Over population certainly could not well have 

 been the true cause of expatriation ; for several whole 

 tribes of Belgse, and the Allobrogi, had not yet relin- 

 quished the north of the Rhine and Danube. Now 

 these denominations in Theotisk had only two mean- 

 ings ; Volke, as before said, denoting a people, in con- 

 tradistinction to Geschlecht and Stam, which were ap- 

 plied to homogeneous clans or tribes ; and Gela, Gaul, 

 Gael, by the Celtic nations always understood to desig- 

 nate strangers, foreigners, because most probably they 

 also were partly mixed tribes ; the same originally as 

 those who were known by the collective appellations 

 of Belgae, Centomanni, Celtomanni, &c., and only bore 

 the general epithet of Gauls among the Celtae properly 

 so called. This appellation was pronounced by them- 

 selves and the Teutonic race, Wael, Welsh, Yelsche, 

 only a dialectical variation from Wilci (wolves). If 

 the Gelas of the Caspian coast were of the same stem, 

 we have a geographical indication that the Celto Scythic, 

 or perhaps Celto Finnic tribes, extended so far towards 

 the north-east as the Araxes ; and though the Phrygian, 

 Gallae, the emasculated priesthood of the Syrian God- 

 dess, renowned for circular dances and choral songs, 

 may not have been Gallic by race ; the presumption is, 

 that they, or the institutions they observed, came from 

 the banks of the above named Phrygian rivers, where 

 the whole region was at one time Celtic. To that 

 quarter a Gallic army from the west, having ravaged 

 Greece, was, ages after, again invited, and there the 

 forces, so far from wearing out in a short period, as 



