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if we admit such proof, we must also confess that all the Celtic 

 tribes of Gaul were not cognate, for Strabo expressly affirms, 

 " that these did not all speak the same language, but that some 

 spoke dialects varying a little in form." 1 



The inference, on the contrary, ought to be, that they were 

 originally of the same race, but changed in some respects by time 

 and circumstances. This will appear more probable, if we take 

 into consideration that it is impossible for any one acquainted 

 with the ancient history, laws, and institutions of the Cumrian 

 race, to recognize it in the accounts given by historians of the 

 invaders of Italy under Bellovesus. Their blue eyes, red 

 hair, and great stature, together with their pastoral rather than 

 agricultural habits, are strong proofs that the majority at least 

 must have been rather of German than of Celtic origin. But a 

 rational account of the various races between the Alps and the 

 ocean, the Pyrenees and the Rhine, as recorded by ancient his- 

 torians, is as yet a desideratum. The materials are ample, and 

 the key for the solution of all difficulties will be found in an ade- 

 quate knowledge of the Basque, the Cumrian, the Teutonic, and 

 perhaps the Gaelic, which languages alone, previous to the Greek 

 settlements and Roman invasion, could have been spoken within 

 those limits. It will be sufficient for me, on the present occa- 

 sion, to hint, that, in addition to the undoubted Teutonic origin 

 of all the Belgian tribes, with the exception of the Menapii and 

 Morini, a considerable portion of the territory assigned by Caesar 

 to the Celtae or Galli, was possessed by a population semi-Teuto- 

 nic in their names, habits, and religion. It appears evident that 

 various eruptions of the northern nations into the south, prior 

 to that of the Cimbri and Teutones a. c. 110, and of Ariovistus 

 at a later period, had entirely broken up the whole frame-work of 

 society in Gall, and precipitated the several races upon each other. 



1 Strabo.- — bf^o-yf/XmHoug ou vavlag, otXk'tvioug /Ar/.gov <xa%aXhoCl1ov1rag rcug yXuesaig. 

 The ykcJTlr) aXXo/a of Polybius is not, as is well known to every scholar, '• ano- 

 ther language, 11 as it has been inaccurately translated, but a " variety in dialect. ' 

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