40 Dr Daniel Wilson on the Intrusion of 



upon the historic arena in their decline, like some long- 

 voyaging ship seen for the first time as it dashes amid the 

 breakers of a strange and rock-bound coast, the Germanic 

 races dawn upon us in their young barbarian strength, with 

 all their national being still awaiting its development, and 

 with the geographical arena of their historical existence occu- 

 pied by the precursors whom they came to displace. Assuming, 

 as a general rule, the uniform north-western progression of 

 European population from the Asiatic cradle-land of the 

 human race, to which science, no less than revelation, points, 

 we are thence led to assign a certain relative age to races from 

 their geographical position. In the extreme north are still 

 found the Ugrian Fins and Laps, pertaining to a stock whose 

 congeners abound in Asia and find their modern European 

 representatives in the intrusive Majiars of Hungary, but who, 

 as an ancient European stock, appear as the probable repre- 

 sentatives of those Allophylise, whose existence in the north 

 of Europe, and in Britain, in periods prior to all written his- 

 tory, is now generally accepted as an established truth. In 

 like manner, the mountainous Basque region of the Pyrenees 

 shelters the last remnant of the ancient Iberian stock, an un- 

 classed, if not aboriginal Allophylian race; while, among the 

 mountains of Albania — like waifs caught in the eddy of the 

 great western stream of population — are still found the Skipe- 

 tar, another unclassed race, who, for aught that can be said to 

 the contrary, may as truly represent to us the aboriginal 

 Pelasgi of Greece, as the Basques undoubtedly do the Iberi of 

 Spain. Leaving those, and coming down in point of time to 

 the Indo-European historic races, we find the Gaelic Kelts in 

 the extreme north-west, as in North Britain and Ireland, and 

 in Gaul, with the Kymric and other Kelts, as the Welsh of 

 England, and the Cimbri and even the Teutones* of the 



* The science of Ethnology i3 still so much in its infancy, that it will least 

 surprise the most zealous of its students to find its longest accepted terms 

 called in question. Dr Latham has advanced reasons in his " Ethnology of 

 Europe," for believing that, " instead of the ancient Kelts of Iberia having 

 been Kelts in the modern sense of the word, the Kelts of Gallia were Iberians," 

 t*. e., were a different race from the Gauls north of the Garrone. Next to the 

 term Celtic, no word is better established among English, though not among 

 continental ethnologists, than Teutonic, as equivalent to Germanic, and thereby 



