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troducing their language with their sovereign- 

 ty into the country of the Gauls, into Boetica, 

 and into the province of Africa ; but the natives 

 of these countries were not savages. They 

 inhabited towns ; they were acquainted with 

 the use of money ; they were in possession of 

 institutions, which indicate a sufficiently ad- 

 vanced state of cultivation. The allurement 

 of commerce, and a long abode of the Roman 

 legions, had promoted an intercourse between 

 them and their conquerors. We see, on the 

 contrary, that the introduction of the lan- 

 guages of the metropolis found obstacles al- 

 most innumerable wherever Carthaginian, Greek, 

 or Roman colonies were established on coasts 

 entirely barbarous. In every age, and in every 

 climate, the first impulse of the savage is to 

 shun the civilized man. 



The language of the Chayma Indians ap- 



of their language, for the reason of this rapid introduction 

 of Latin among the Gauls. The Celtic nations, with brown 

 hair, were certainly different from the race of the German- 

 nic nations with light hair ; and though the Druid cast re- 

 calls to our minds one of the institutions of the Ganges, this 

 does not demonstrate, that the idiom of the Celts belongs, 

 like that of the nations of Odin, to a branch of the Indo-pe- 

 lasgic languages. From analogy of structure and of roots, 

 the Latin ought to have penetrated more easily on the other 

 side of the Danube, than into Gaul ; but an uncultivated 

 state, joined to great moral inflexibility, opposed probably 

 it's introduction among the Germannic nations. 



