314 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



Greek skill; for all these have been found in Gaul, Britain, 

 the Tyrol, in the waters of the Baltic, and even in the bogs of 

 Ireland.* 



The three nations, Etruscans, Ligurians, and Veneti, called 

 the river Eridanus, which each, in turn, had possessed, by the 

 names of Podan, Podines, Podinco (the Po), the terminal par- 

 ticle being still abundantly found in certain localities of Lap- 

 land. To these we might join the kindred Illyrian tribes, both 

 on the Danube and the Adriatic, the pirate Liburni, with their 

 fast rowing galleys, the Carni, and other clans, as before shown, 

 mixed even with the Hellenic race; and all, like the true Finnic 

 people, with remarkable veneration for the dead, for sorcery, 

 apparitions, and human sacrifices. But for the present these 

 circumstances may be passed over, as we shall have occasion 

 to revert to them in the sequel. 



Few vestiges of the Finnic people can now be traced in the 

 hill and mining regions of middle Europe, excepting perhaps 

 in the Alpine, where the name of Tschudi is still preserved in 

 one or more families of some distinction; and to the west, in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, or in northern Ireland, where the 

 significant name of the Fion, Fingall, Fingal, represents a 

 marine tribe, avowedly acquainted with Lochlin, Norway, 

 Friesland, or more properly, the eastern portion of the Baltic ; 



* Such is the bronze group, eight inches high, representing the Centaur 

 Chiron, with young Achilles on his back, in the act of drawing his bow, 

 and a dog leaping against the fore-leg of the horse part, the whole stand- 

 ing on a scroll with a ferule, evidently intended to support e lance. It 

 was found near Sidmouth, much worn by ages of attrition in the wash of 

 the sea. Again, a winged figure, sounding a trumpet, having one knee 

 bent, the other resting on a globe, supported by a ferule, eight inches 

 high, found in the bog of Allen in Ireland. Also numerous specimens of 

 small brazen two and three horned bulls, ensigns of the Sequani, Taurini, 

 &c, bas-relief figures of champions, in copper, found in Tyrol, and silvei 

 elastic spiral weighing-scales, with Roman stamp upon them, found in 

 the Baltic ; all, excepting the last, bearing evidence of Etruscan or bar- 

 barian workmanship. 



