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Allobroges is a Latin form of a Celtic \vord meaning simply 

 foreigners : All-bro-og, of another land, whether of another race 

 or not, foreigners to some Celtic folk who called them so. The 

 Allobroges (Belgse) were foreigners to the Britons, and the 

 Swiss Allobroges were foreigners to the Gauls. There were 

 Atrebates, so-called in Britain, and in Artois in Gaul, but not in 

 Belgium ; but the A-trebates were so-called as it is pretty 

 clear from the Celtic for villages. In Welsh "y Trevydd." 

 The villages of a thick population in rich open land and no-few- 

 folked wood or marsh. Treviri is a name of much the like 

 meaning ; Trevwyr, the village men. 



The Dnvotriges of Dorset were sometimes called Mouni, and 

 there were Morini so called in Gaul, and if they were Belgse, 

 yet the Durotriges were not, and Morini betokens that they were 

 so called as dwelling Ar y Morin, By the Little sea at Ware- 

 ham in Britain. 



The names of the sundry tribes of the Belgre of Gaul do not 

 show themselves in those of the Belgic tribes in Britain. The 

 Hedui or Haedui of Somerset seem to have been a Belgic tribe, 

 but theHaeduior Iledui of Gaul were not so, and if they had 

 been their name is clearly Celtic, and they might have dwelt on a 

 Heddwy, a Smooth or gliding water. The main cities of the 

 Belgse in Britain were Caerwent (1), (Yenta Belgarum ; (2), Win. 

 Chester (2) Ischalis and (3), Caer Baddon, or y. Baddon, Bath, 

 but if the Belgse, founded and first so named those places, they 

 must have been so far Celtic as the Cymry of Wales, who had, as 

 they still have, a Caerwent (Venta Siluruni) in Wales. Ischalis 

 sounds very strongly of Esc., the West British for a stream or 

 water,or " Escol,"Waterly, but not of Teutonic speech, and "Caer 

 Baddon," the stronghold of the Baths, and "Nant badden," 

 the Dell of the Baths, for the dell of the Avon from Bath towards 

 Bristol, is pure British. If the Belgae found Winchester or any 

 other place with a Celtic name, "Caerwent," as that of Caer- 

 went in Wales, or Caer Odor yn nant Baddon, for Clifton, 

 meaning the stronghold of the split in the dell 



