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became a privileged class of rulers, or adulterated the 

 Celtic "blood and language ; such were the Gallic, the 

 first and second Belgic tribes, the Centomannii, the 

 Boii, the Allobroges, and lastly the Cymber or Friesonic, 

 which were nearly pure Germans. The intermixture, 

 in proportion as it increased, gave firmness, and those 

 enduring qualities which finally arrested the pressure 

 of the Getic races, and they resembled them in person 

 and in language, as is proved by the Franks, the Si- 

 Cambers and Frankonians, or east Franks on the Ger- 

 man side of the Rhine, and by the Saxons and North- 

 men in the British Islands. After they had been sub- 

 jugated by the Romans, the Danube and the Rhine 

 were both wrested from them by these amalgamated 

 tribes ; they sank before the Vandals, the Goths, the 

 Burgundians, the Franks, the Saxons, and the North- 

 men, in every quarter except the Highlands of Scot- 

 land and a portion of Ireland. These, with Wales, a 

 small part of French Bretagne, and the Alpine Vau- 

 dois, are now the sole portions of the race which still 

 retain the pride of their nationality, their ancient lan- 

 guage, and their traditions. 



That they all came from the east is perhaps suffi- 

 ciently shown. We have pointed out the routes fol- 

 lowed by the migratory columns, and their stations in 

 Armenia and Western Asia ; their early blending with 

 Finnic or Ural-Altaic tribes, probably on the Caspian 

 coast, constituting a portion of the IHyrian branch of 

 Eastern Europe. They seem still to retain possession 

 of a portion of territory on the Danube, under the name 



