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eby, advanced into the furthest west, where perhaps some ves- 

 tiges of previous colonists may be found. They carried with them 

 the mysteries, the doctrine of metempsychosis, the rites of po- 

 lytheism, the philosophy and the language of the east. 



" The Pelasgian and Thracian races established themselves in 

 Asia Minor and passed the Hellespont into Thrace. The former 

 colonized Greece and Italy ; the latter passed to the northward 

 of the Danube into the Dacian or Getic country. Tribes of this 

 nation wandered at a later period through the forests of Germany, 

 where they multiplied and encroached upon the Celta?. Lastly 

 the M edes, delighting in their herds of horses, advanced through 

 the Euxine borders into Scythia and Sarmatia. 



" That all these nations, the Celtaj, the Pelasgi, the Goths 

 and the Sarmatre were comparatively late colonists from As ; a, 

 Ave may safely assert, when we consider the strong affinities dis- 

 coverable in their systems, in their religious rites and doctrines, 

 and in their dialects which are clearly branches of the Sanscrit 

 and old Persic, and when we remark that most of them may be 

 traced in history still preserved from their primitive settlements 

 in the East." 



Our inevitable conclusion thus coincides with the Mosaic ac- 

 count, — that the whole human race is the offspring of the same 

 parents. 



THK EN1>. 



4. Barker, Printer, 4, Crane Court, Fleet Street. 



