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with little mutation, from Guorno, Homo, which was doubtless 

 in use among- the Pelasgians, a somewhat kindred nation, that 

 passed and dwelt along the same line of migration.* It sig- 

 nifies merely 1: an or men, the common appellation of a multi- 

 tude of ancient tribes in Scythic dialects, or those which we 

 take to be offspring of that common tongue of High Asia, the 

 Sanscrit, before it became a polished vehicle of knowledge in 

 the centre of the ancient world. 



If the tribes which followed the most southern route, such, 

 for example, as that by the Helmund, towards the region where 

 Persepolis and Susa were afterwards built, had black eyes and 

 curly hair, like every race that came in contact with the Ethi- 

 opian stern; those which followed the course more directly 

 west, along the flank of the mountains, where their monu- 

 ments are still visible, were more probably a blue-eyed people, 

 with brown hair, and full muscular structure; nationally 

 graziers (gwallah), and possessing that basis of traditions 

 which they afterwards carried with them to Gaul and Britain. 

 In a pure state, or already in commixture with tribes of Finnic 

 origin, we find them in Armenia; tribes reckoned among the 

 giant conquerors, penetrating into Syria and Arabia, and the 

 main columns possessing Colchis and Asia Minor, where the 

 rivers Sangarius and Gallus (Halys), with other remote Celtic 

 denominations, attest that they once resided. If the Milesians 

 have a true claim to Celtic consanguinity, they penetrated to 

 the Borysthenes, and built Olbio, where the sturgeon fishery, 

 corn husbandry, and weaving fine cloths from hemp, had 

 formed a flourishing community in the time of Herodotus, or 

 B. C. 460. But this date is several ages posterior to the first 



* There are other derivations, or the same, reversing the meaning, as 

 is constantly ;he case in cognate languages, such as the Celtic Combe, a 

 valley, and Tautonic Kam, a crest ; for in both we may have the radical 

 meaning of Cumraeg, Cymhri, Cumbers, Cumbrians, Cambrians, Cam- 

 brivii, Cambresians, Kumbers, Kempers, Kempenners, Kennermers, 

 Cimmerians, &c. See also Cuma, in many localities. — Steph. Byzant 



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