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British legend, they had once, at least, a tribe seated on the 

 Llobregat in Spain, and no doubt were in part the migrators 

 who, on retiring northward, crossed the Cevennes to the head 

 waters of the river Loire (Ligeris), which they decorated with 

 their own national appellation. Here they were joined by 

 another, the Illyrian, Venetic, Henyd, Wend, or Gwyned tribe 

 or association, for it may have originated entirely in the com- 

 mercial spirit of the more enlightened persons of several tribes, 

 and even whole clans. 



The Illyrian Alps, placed between Pannonia and the Adri- 

 atic, contain a variety of nations, which, like those of West- 

 ern Caucasus, might claim to be aboriginal, if they also were 

 not known to have been colonies, which, in remote ages, came 

 up the Danube, and were subsequently driven to the mountains, 

 while others passed through the Bosphorus from the Black 

 Sea, or came from Asia Minor, and skirted the coasts of 

 Greece. Strabo mentions not less than eleven tribes, some of 

 which we find again on the coasts of Colchis, and others are 

 .^.ow admitted to be Scythian and Finnic. The Veneti, Carnes, 

 &c , belong to this group. 



THE VENETI. 



Accokding to their national tales, plainly the invention of 

 later ages, the Italian Veneti pretended to be a colony of Tro- 

 jan fugitives, under the conduct of Antenor. After they arrived 

 in the west they warred with Servius Velesus, king of the 

 Euganeans; and their records hinted at a consanguinity with 

 the Heneti of Paphlagonia, where they were horsemen and 

 hired soldiers, and, headed, it is said, by king Pylemenus, they 

 served Priam in the Trojan war. But they were thrifty deal- 

 ers, since to them is assigned the introduction of mules in the 

 markets of Asia Minor. The Greek poets spoke of their coun- 

 try, situated at the mouth of the Eridanus (the Po), perhaps 

 also the Rhine, where the Celtee dwelt; and Virgil was well 



