176 CEITIQUES AND ADDRESSES. [vm. 



reasoning from the knowledge of later times ; but there 

 seems to be no doubt that it was Gaelic ; and that the 

 Gaelic dialect was introduced into the "Western High- 

 lands by Irish invaders. 



II. The Belgce and the Celtce, with the offshoots of the 

 latter in Asia Minor, spoke dialects of the Cymric 

 division of Celtic. 



The evidence of this proposition lies in the statement 

 of St. Jerome before cited ; in the similarity of the names 

 of places in Belgic Gaul and in Britain; and in the 

 direct comparison of sundry ancient Gaulish and Belgic 

 words which have been preserved, with the existing 

 Cymric dialects, for which I must refer to the learned 

 work of Brandes. 



Formerly, as at the present day, the Cymric dialects of 

 Celtic were spoken by both the fair and the dark stocks. 



III. There is no record of Gaelic being spoken any- 

 where save in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. 



This appears to be the final result of the long discus- 

 sions which have taken place on this much-debated 

 question. As is the case with the Cymric dialects, 

 Gaelic is now spoken by both dark and fair stocks. 



IV. When the Teutonic languages first became known, 

 they were spoken only by Xanthochroi, that is to say, by 

 the Germans, the Scandinavians, and Goths. And they 

 were imported by Xanthochroi into Gaul and into 

 Britain. 



In Gaul the imported Teutonic dialect has-been com- 

 pletely overpowered by the more or less modified Latin, 

 which it found already in possession ; and what Teutonic 

 blood there may be in modern Frenchmen is not ade- 

 quately represented in their language. In Britain, on 

 the contrary, the Teutonic dialects have overpowered 

 the pre-existing forms of speech, and the people are 

 vastly less " Teutonic " than their language. Whatever 



