432 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



of Wallachians (for the claim, of that peopie to an 

 Italian or Roman origin, is no other than that tne 

 Italians are denominated Velches by the Soutnern 

 Allemannic and Sclavonic nations), though by that 

 name they acknowledge themselves actually to belong 

 to the Celtic family. They may be the Celtae which 

 Alexander found on the Ister, according to Arrian, and 

 be the Triballi of Roman history. Farther on we ob- 

 served that wandering tribe, the Boii, in the present 

 Bavaria, the same which once occupied Bohemia, and 

 left two colonies in Gaul, whereof one, seated at the 

 Teste de Buch, near the mouth of the Garonne, had for 

 hereditary Vergobret, romanized into Captal de Buch, 

 Jean de Grailly, the last of the family, who was, in the 

 reign of Edward III., the fifth Knight of the Garter, 

 at the foundation of the order. This very title of 

 Buch, their tribal name of Bougers, and their silent 

 woodland manners, attest that they were not pure Celts, 

 but, like other fair-haired Boii of the north, Belgae or 

 Semi Germans.* Besides the possession of Bohemia, 

 Celtic tribes long held Galicia in Spain ; others, from 

 the Tauric Chersonesus, passed up the rivers and 

 swamps of Sarmatian Galicia and the Baltic, where 

 they came in contact with Illyrian or Finnic Veneti. 

 Passing over to Sweden and Norway, they built up the 



* In the letters of St. Paulinus, addressed to the poet 

 Ausonius, there are some details of the manners of these 

 Boii. At present they are collectors of rosin in the pine 

 forests of that sandy region, and characteristically possess 

 a breed of vigorous feral horses. 



