434 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



reflecting power, than the Getic family of nations seems 

 to require. The Finnic Celtae were the first northern 

 marine wanderers, who having attained the Scottish 

 and Irish coasts, constituted the Gael Coch, or red 

 haired strangers of Scandinavian origin, and first 

 taught the pursuing Getae in part their kindred 

 to follow them to the south, under the name of North- 

 men and Ostmen. 



The Cymbers were perhaps the last colony from the 

 north that had consanguinity with the Celtse : they 

 "broke into Gaul B, C. 108, penetrated to Spain, and, in 

 alliance with Teutonic tribes, they were at length van- 

 quished in the plains of Italy, after they had destroyed 

 several consular armies.* In Britain, as already 

 stated, there were a greater diversity of races than is 

 commonly admitted, besides a nameless population of 

 savages, probably Finnic, in possession of the coast 

 when the Celtae first landed. There were among 

 these, and protected by the Hedui, the Veneti (Henyd) 

 and Ligurians (Llogrwys), who, we have shown, had, 

 through their Illyrian origin, likewise Finnic affinities ; 

 the purer Celtae, such as the Morini and the nautical 

 clans coming from the coast of Spain, and the Belgae of 

 Semi-Teutonic origin, such as the Cantii and others 

 occupying the east coast of Britain, The intercom- 

 munication of knowledge and civilization among tribes, 



* They routed, between B.C. 302 and 307, the armies of 

 Papyrius, of Silanus, of Cassius Longinus, and of Csepfo 

 and Mallhis, who were loaded with the Celtic treasures 

 of Tolosa, once plundered by the Gauls at Grecian Delphos. 



