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Rhine, 600 years B. C, that Semi-Teutones or Getic tribes, 

 such as the Boii, were among them, and that the moveon-nt 

 was occasioned by fresh pressure of similar tr.'bes coming 

 down the north-west coast of Germany — tribes that could not 

 be expatriated by any other than enemies of purer Getic race, 

 who were themselves pressed by more of the same", further in 

 the north-east. We have prominent, on the scene of action, 

 the same names of nations, from the high lands of Mongolia to 

 the German Ocean. They continue to roll onwards in waves, 

 retaining their first appellations, till four centuries A. C. In 

 Tahtar, and Chinese and European Chinese annals, they are 

 distinguished by the names of Kioto Moey, Yuchi, and Yetx-, 

 Getae, Scythae, Guti, Guttones, Jotun, Goths, Massagets, etc., 

 until they become known by more tribal denominations, such 

 as Gothi, Germani, Teutones, Xacas, Sacas, Sakya, Sacse : 

 at later periods we find Sueiones, Suevi, Burgundi; and at 

 length they are followed by Sclavonic tribes, which always 

 bear some impression of Ural Altaic consanguinity, notwith- 

 standing that in part they are descended from Sacas, who, 

 repulsed by Indian forces, fell back upon Persia, and brought 

 with them Hindoo mythological notions, that extended among 

 kindred nations, and reached Scandinavia. 



According to Chinese annalists, when Foh appeared, B. C. 

 1027, Yuchi were already established in Bactria, along the 

 Sihoon or Jaxartes river, and they had possessed, or still were 

 masters of, the great basin around Lake Balkach ; the first station 

 west of the central mountain chain, provided that the Siberian 

 region, in remote times called Geta or Yeta, be not still more 

 ancient, and reveal the original meaning of Get, bright, corrus- 

 cating, the same as Sibir, and our silver, which seems to be the 

 Russian or Sclavonic translation of Yet. 



The Chinese Yuchi, and more proper names of Yeta and 

 Gette, collectively taken, denoted the whole family of fair- 

 haired tribes, including those which were foremost in the 

 movement towards the west, and were partially intermixed 



