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whether the Allemanni, Allobrogi, Centomanni, Gere- 

 manni, Teutones, and Frisones, were of the same 

 races, pure Getae, or with perhaps some Finnic inter- 

 mixture. That they were nearly allied, is evident 

 from their tribal names, notwithstanding that the Ro- 

 mans confounded them with the Gauls, because, in the 

 time of Marius, it was thought to be the greater honour 

 to vanquish them, and they were encountered on the 

 west side of the Rhine. In Britain, the former were 

 the Gwyddel Coch, or Ywerdon, the red Gael of Ire- 

 land, probably the Dalriads noticed in the third cen- 

 tury again, of the same nation as the yellow haired 

 Britons, taller than the Italian race, seen at Rome by 

 Strabo, and still distinguished by the bard of Malcolm 

 III. in 1057. These no doubt were the Celto Scythae 

 of earlier antiquity, little if at all to be divided from 

 the Finnic Celts, but more distinct from the Getic 

 tribes, who are often noticed in antiquity, as milk eat- 

 ing and western Scythae, residing between the Danube 

 and the Tanais or Don, at the time the eastern Getae, 

 or Massageta3, the Sakas and Sarmatae, were on the 

 plains northward of the Caspian, and along the Oxus 

 and Jaxartes, up to High Asia, and the Yuchi (Yuei- 

 chi), were still in the present Mongolia. This appears 

 to have been that period when the great conflict of the 

 typical races was at its height, in Northern Central 

 Asia ; for the Chinese were then building the Great 

 Wall (B. C. 223) to exclude these valiant tribes from 

 their southern states, and the Persian monarchs were 



