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with the Celtic tribes of the north, forming the Cymber or 

 Cimmerian people before mentioned. Similar interunions 

 affected the Gallic or fair-haired Gaul tribes; the Boii, the 

 Volsci, the Britons of the east coast, the Yuinidi; the Wilci, 

 northern or second Belgas* &c. ; but it may be doubted 

 whether the Allemanni, Allobrogi, Centomanni, Geremanni. 

 Teutones, and Frisones, were of the same races, pure Getae, or 

 with perhaps some Finnic intermixture. That they were 

 nearly allied, is evident from their tribal names, notwithstand- 

 ing that the Romans confounded them with the Gauls, 

 because, in the time of Marius, it was thought to be the 

 greater honor to vanquish them, and they were encountered 

 )n the west side of the Rhine. In Britain, the former were 

 the Gwyddel Coch, or Ywerdon, the red Gael of Ireland, 

 probably the Dalriads noticed in the third century again, of the 

 same nation as the yellow-haired Britons, taller than the 

 Italian race, seen at Rome by Strabo, and still distinguished 

 by the bard of Malcolm III., in 1057. These no doubt were 

 the Celto Scythas of earlier antiquity, little if at all to be 

 divided from the Finnic Celts, but more distinct from the 

 Getic tribes, who are often noticed in antiquity, as milk-eating 

 and western Scythoe, residing between the Danube and the 

 Tanais or Don, at the time the eastern Getae, or Massagetse, 

 the Sakas and Sarmata;, were on the plains northward of the 

 Caspian, and along the Oxus and Jaxartes, up to High Asia, 

 and the Yuchi (Yueichi) were still in the present Mongolia. 

 This appears to have been that period when the great conflict 

 of the typical races was at its height, in Northern Central 

 Asia; for the Chinese were then building the Great Wall 

 (B. C. 223) to exclude these valiant tribes from their southern 

 states, and the Persian monarchs were equally anxious to pre- 

 vent them penetrating to the south, since they also had raised 



* The Esauites, or Italian Edomites of Gorio, who built Norba, Alba, 

 and other Cyclopean cities in Lower Etruria and Latium, were a fair- 

 haired race, most likely Etruscans, speaking an Oscan dialect. 



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