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Chap. II. except the parts of Italy occupied by the Greeks, ^ and those 

 with whom they had commercial intercourse by sea. And 



when probably' the Romans first became acquainted with the native hound of the 

 interior. 



It is impossible to speak with any degree of certainty of the origin and distribution 

 of the ancient Celtje, or Galatas, or Galli, as they were variously called by the 

 Greeks and Romans. Whether derived from Ashkenez, the grandson of Noah ; or 

 from Celtus, Gallus, and Illyricus, sons of Polyphemus; or from Celtes, a king of 

 Gaul, — matters not. Leaving these knotty points of genealogy to others, let it suffice 

 that the Celts, at an early period, occupied a large portion of Western Europe. 

 Herodotus mentions them in Melpomene s. 49. ot iax''-'''^'^ '"'P^^ ri\iov Suc/ueW juerct 

 KufrjTas olKeovtTi rSiv h rfi Evpiiirri : and our author stales that Celtic legates came 

 Expedit. Alex- to Alexander from the shores of the Ionian sea, irapa KeKruv tuv inl r^ 'loviep kSKkcj) 

 ' ' ' <fKi(Tfiivwv fjKov. Extensive as the name must have been at that time, it was subse- 

 quently confined to fewer tribes ; and, in the days of Julius Caesar, was appropriated 

 to the inhabitants of Gallia Celtica, a territory between the Loire and Seine, which 

 at a later period borrowed a new denomination from the celebrated colony of Lugdu- 

 Cffisar. de Bell, iium, or Lyons. "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres ; quarum unam incolunt Belgae j 

 Gall. L. I. c. I. aliam Aquitani ; tertiam, qui ipsorum lingua Celta;, nostrS. Galli appellantur." But 

 I think it probable that Arrian did not intend to use the term Celtic in its limited 

 sense, as having reference exclusively to the district of Gaul so denominated by 

 Cffisar, but as comprehending also the more southern parts of the country. So also 

 Silius Italicus, L. in. 



Pyrene celsa nirabosi verticis arce 

 Divisos Celtis alte prospectat Iberos. 



And Oppian, in the conclusion of his third Halieutic : 



'PoSofoTo iraph (nS/xa Orjprfrjjpfs 

 > KeATol— 



Indeed Strabo, L. i., Plutarch, in Csesare, in Crasso ; Appian, Bell. Civil. 2., and 

 others, call the Gauls in general by the name of Celtae; and the ancient Greek geo- 

 graphers knew of only two nations in Europe besides themselves, the Celtae and the 

 Scythae, the former in the West, the latter in the North. 



3. The specific name of Grains, or Graecus, by which Linnteus, Ray, and others, 

 have designated the greyhound, is unfortunate, as it has led to the erroneous opinion 

 that he was known to ancient Greece ; whereas it is satisfactorily proved by the 

 younger Xenophon, that his Athenian namesake was not only not acquainted with 

 the Celtic breed of dogs, but that no dogs of similar qualities were known to his 

 predecessor, when he wrote his celebrated treatise on Hunting. Skinner doubts the 



