404 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



bright rel lips. It is a spirited race, gifted with the highest 

 imaginative power, serious, thoughtful, religious, obstinate, 

 attached to its own nationalities, and, though in many cases 

 proved to have beon a marine people, nowhere really fond of a 

 sea life. Such ai 2 the true Cymraeg, the Siluri of Tacitus, 

 abounding in Wales : in Cornwall they are ofttimes named 

 Cadisians, from a legend that their ancestors came from the 

 coast of Spain ; and local names indicate the antique presence 

 of Punic and Hebrew colonists and mining speculators, who 

 understood the value of the Cornish ores so well, that, to the 

 age of King Henry III., Jews still were the parties that farmed 

 the right of stream working and mining from the crown. It 

 is probable that the Hibernian Coomary, sea-dogs, or seals, 

 likewise connected with legends of Gallican origin, and the so- 

 called Milesians, belong to the same stock, notwithstanding 

 that their remote ancestors "may have resided on the northern 

 shore of the Euxine, as before stated. The name may even be 

 traced as far as Bactria, among the present Rajpoots, celebrated 

 in the Rhamayana for their horses ; and Khomen still reside at 

 the Bay of Cambogia in Siam. 



In Gaul the brown-haired tribes prevail, though dark-eyed 

 families are exceedingly abundant, and the whole are inter- 

 mixed with Finns, Alans, Goths, Burgundians, and Franks, 

 who, nevertheless, though they were mostly nations of real 

 horsemen, have never been enabled to make the Celtic people 

 either in Italy, Gaul, or Catalonia, more than transitorily 

 addicted to a cavalry life, or formidable for their squad- 

 rons, notwithstanding that the antique institution of the tri- 

 marchesia,^ and the Gallic Alas in the Roman service, seem 

 to prove the contrary; at all times this species of renown was 

 due only through the Belgic, Allemannic, and Frankish influ- 



* Or three horsemen combined ; Tri-march-cesec, a master and two 

 attendants, according to Pausanias ; but if there was but one horse and 

 two foot soldiers, the institution was bad. We must allow that the 

 p olish lancers and the Spahis were once formed upon this principle. 



