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A STUDY ON THE BELG^E IN SOUTH BRITAIN. 



of the Bathe, so they kept it ; though it seems 

 (from the Cornoak or British of the West of 

 Britain) the tongue of Lloegr under the force of inbrought speech, 

 albeit it was Celtic, was worn off somewhat from the Cym- 

 ric of Wales, if we may take that as the purer form of the Cel- 

 tic of Britain. One may see that there were Morini in Gallic 

 Belgium and that the British Durotriges, or those of their 

 mother-town, were Morini, and believe the Durotriges were 

 Belgae. But they were not. The Belgae did not hold Dorset. 

 If you look through the list of place names, in that of the 

 Anonymous Geographer of Ravenna, you find that, whether 

 they are the names of places belonging to the dominion of the 

 Belgae or elsewhere, they are Latin forms of Celtic British and 

 not Teutonic words. Some Welsh traditions give down that 

 some Coraniaid settled on the North-eastern shore of Britain. 

 The upshot then to which I bring myself is that the Belgae of 

 Britain were, like the Britons themselves, a Celtic and not a 

 Teutonic race, Walloons, and that after a while they so far min- 

 gled with the Britons that the Saxons never marked them from 

 the other Britons of the South. 



