THE HUMAN SPECIES. 4S7 



Bas Bretons who claim something of a pure descent. 

 The Waldenses of the Alps are less distinct. The 

 south-eastern Irish have a just claim to a Belgic ori- 

 gin, and the Cymraeg of Wales to a true southern 

 Celtic parentage ; while the Gael of the Scottish High- 

 lands are probably Finnic Celts, who resided in Erin, 

 till they were obliged to retire before the superior 

 numbers of the Fir-bolg.* 



THE GET^E OR GOTHIC NATIONS. 



AT length we attain the concluding family of nations. 

 It is that stem, which, though later in reaching the 

 Western Ocean, and like the rest of the tribes that 

 peopled Europe, though compelled to forsake High 

 Asia, and quit the east, was destined nevertheless to 

 hold dominion in Chinese Tahtary, ages after the 

 other Caucasian nations had been expelled or exter- 

 minated by the Mongoles. They likewise were early 

 invaders of India, and are no doubt of the number of 

 those which the Egyptian kings Remses and Thoth- 

 rnes, and the Assyrian Ninus, vainly endeavoured per- 

 manently to subjugate, notwithstanding that they had 



* It may be remarked here, that several Celtic terms are 

 referred to Theotisk sources, because they belong to the 

 Celto-Cymber and Belgic tribes, who, as Csesar asserts, 

 spoke a distinct language; and the romanized names of 

 divinities prove to have been invariably of Teutonic, not 

 Gallic origin, from the Rhine to beyond the Scheldt. 



