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and separated from the forehead by a depression, more or less marked, 

 between the eyes ; the beard full, and slightly rigid ; the mouth 

 moderate. Diodorus says that the Gauls were red-haired, and that they 

 rendered this colour more intense by their habit of washing the head with 

 a sort of lime-water : according to Strabo, the ancient Britons had the 

 hair much less reddish, or yellow, than the Gauls, and were of taller 

 stature. The Celtic dress consisted of tunics, brachae or pantaloons, 

 and cloaks, of party-coloured woollen cloth, the colours being sometimes 

 in stripes, but mostly in chequers, of which the tartan, still called the garb 

 of old Gaul, to this day, affords an example. 



PELASGIC BRANCH. If the remote history of Italy be so obscure, and 

 bring us into contact with a race now almost forgotten, widely as it was once 

 diffused, the history of Greece is no less shrouded in darkness. The Cyclo- 

 pean structures, the massive ruins of which still exist, tell of a rude but 

 energetic people, who, ignorant of architecture as a science, trusted to 

 the weight of uncemented blocks of stone, for strength and durability in 

 the structure of their walls and temples. At a later period than that in 

 which the Cyclopean works were erected, we hear of the Pelasgi, and of 

 the Hellenic and Achaean tribes, into which the former appear ultimately 

 to have merged. To the Pelasgi the building of many cities is attributed. 

 The common name of a Pelasgian fortress was Larissa (perhaps from 

 Aaar, a stone, and C p at6) , V at(raj > to hammer, or hew*), and Fynes Clinton 

 states, that seventeen places, bearing this name, may be traced, most of 

 which, probably all, were built by the Pelasgi. Herodotus says, " The 

 Lacedaemonians were of the Doric, the Athenians of the Ionic race, 

 formerly called Pelasgians and Hellenians, of whom the former had never 

 migrated, the latter often : for, in the time of King Deucalion, the 

 Hellenians inhabited the region of Phthiotis ; but under the reign of 

 Dorus, the son of Hellenus, they possessed the country called Histiaeotis, 

 beneath Ossa and Olympus ; from which being driven by the Cadmaeans, 

 they dwelt near Mount Pindus ; thence they passed to Dryopis ; and, 

 afterwards, entered the Peloponnesus, where they were called Dorians. 

 What language the Pelasgians spoke, cannot certainly be determined ; but, 

 if a conjecture were hazarded, it would be that it was a barbarian 

 tongue. This opinion is supported by the fact, that the remains of the 

 Pelasgians, who inhabit Crotona, a city beyond the Tyrrhenians, and 

 who formerly were neighbours to the Dorians, inhabiting the country 

 now called Thessaliotis, speak a language altogether different from that 

 of any of the surrounding people. The same may be said of those 

 Pelasgians who founded the cities of Placia and Scylace, on the Helles- 

 pont, but who once lived with the Athenians ; and of the inhabitants of 



* The signification of Larissa may be, a fortress of dressed stones, in opposition to the Cyclopean 

 masses, which were superseded by those of the Pelasgians. 



