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of the east and south, which ultimately extended 

 from North Italy as far as Galatia in Asia Minor. 



It is now time to consider the relations between 

 the phenomena of racial distribution, as thus de- 

 fined, and those of the distribution of languages. 

 The blond long-heads of Europe speak, or have 

 spoken, Lithuanian, Teutonic, or Celtic dialects, 

 and they are not known to have ever used any 

 but these Aryan languages. A large proportion 

 of the brunet broad-heads once spoke the Ligu- 

 rian and the Bhsetic dialects, which are believed 

 to have been non-Aryan. But, when the Romans 

 made acquaintance with Transalpine Gaul, the 

 inhabitants of that country between the Garonne 

 and the Seine (Caesar's Oeltica) seem, at any rate 

 for the most part, to have spoken Celtic dialects. 

 The brunet long-heads of Spain and of France ap- 

 pear to have used a non-Aryan language, that 

 Euskarian which still lives on the shores of the 

 Bay of Biscay. In Britain there is no certain 

 knowledge of their use of any but Celtic tongues. 

 What they spoke in the Mediterranean islands and 

 in South Italy does not appear. 



The blond broad-heads of Poland and West 

 Russia form part of a people who, when they first 

 made their appearance in history, occupied the 

 marshy plains imperfectly drained by the Vistula, 

 on the west, the Duna, on the north, and the 

 Dnieper and Bug, on the south. They were 



