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ment of the Aryan race into Asia Minor, such 

 as that which in after years carried the Gauls 

 thither. 



The difficulties in the way of a probable identi- 

 fication of the people among whom the various 

 dialects of the Latin group developed themselves, 

 with any race traceable in Italy in historical 

 times, are very great. In addition to the Italic 

 " aborigines " northern Italy was peopled by 

 Ligurian brunet broad-heads ; with Gauls, prob- 

 ably, to a large extent, blond long- heads; 

 with Illyrians, about whom nothing is known. 

 Besides these, there were those perplexing 

 people the Etruscans, who seem to have been, 

 originally, brunet long-heads. South Italy and 

 Sicily present a contingent of " Sikels," Phoenicians 

 and Greeks; while over all, in comparatively 

 modern times, follows a wash of Teutonic blood. 

 The Latin dialects arose, no one knows how, 

 among the tribes of Central Italy, encompassed 

 on all sides by people of the most various physical 

 characters, who were gradually absorbed into the 

 eternally widening maw of Rome, and there, by 

 dint of using the same speech, became the first 

 example of that wonderful ethnological hotch- 

 potch miscalled the Latin race. The only 

 trustworthy guide here is archaeological in- 

 vestigation. A great advance will have been 

 made when the race characters of the pre-historic 

 people of the terremare (who are identified by 



