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from any single pair, but that each gradually extended, 
dependent on facilities around their original centre. The 
great body of the Mongol, or Yellow race, is spread over 
China, Japan, and the east of Asia, while the Laps and Fins 
and Esquimaux along the northern coasts of the Arctic Ocean, 
and the Malays in the promontories and islands of Asia and 
the Eastern Archipelago, are found extensively distributed. 
The White races (sometimes restricted to the Caucasian) 
were very early distributed over all the world ; and from their 
great advance in civilization, literature, and science, we are 
tempted to consider that a particular reference to this race 
may be discovered in the Genetic record. Although it is not 
absolutely necessary that they should have been created 
altogether so early as the Turanian, or Yellow races, yet we 
must claim that they were created along with the pre- Sabbatic 
races. I am also inclined to maintain that they were early 
distributed over several parts of the old hemisphere, especially 
of Europe, and many of the localities of the Celtic inhabitants 
were already peopled, as by the Piets, &c. I am also inclined 
to consider that the later flow of Celtic population from the 
lofty Himalaya, proceeded westward in three main streams, one 
along the north coast of Africa, crossing at the Straits into 
Spain, and, as an Iberian branch, crossing to Ireland, spread 
out in the dark-eyed brunette races of the south-west ; while 
another stream, traversing Greece, Tuscany, Switzerland, 
France, and Belgium, landed in the south of England, cross- 
ing to Devonshire and Cornwall from Brittany. These also 
spread through Wales. The third, or northern branch, sweep- 
ing through Scandinavia, Norway, Denmark, and the Danish 
isles, landed in the Hebrides, and spread over the mountain 
regions of Scotland, and the east and north of Ireland. 
The aborigines of the British isles, as well as of France 
and Belgium, may have been the same races, though over- 
spread by the tide of population from the lofty mountain 
regions of India. In the Hebrides, and northern islands of 
Scotland, these eastern Celts encountered the Pechts, or Piets, 
a people having the same race-character, and after various 
struggles and conquests, became amalgamated with them; 
and a similar result may possibly have followed the case of the 
other branches of the eastern tide of population. The name 
of the Western Isles is Ii Bridan — the islands of Briton. 
The early inhabitants of Wales, who encountered Csesar on 
his descent into Britain, had the same name. Crossing the 
Channel to France, the natives of Britain encountered a 
similar race, and the country still retains the name of Brittany. 
If we trace the history of the nations of Europe, we find 
