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Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . g^movements bywhich the BritishIsles received theirprimitive Celticpopulation andCentral Italypassed underthe dominion ofGrasco - Italic im-migrants. In the begin-nings of authentichistory the Celtshad already trav-ersed NorthernEurope, and hadleft traces of theirprogress in theeast and actualtribes in the was from thissource that theGauls (C e 11 as),whom Caesar de-clares to have beendivided into threeraces of Galli,A q
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . g^movements bywhich the BritishIsles received theirprimitive Celticpopulation andCentral Italypassed underthe dominion ofGrasco - Italic im-migrants. In the begin-nings of authentichistory the Celtshad already trav-ersed NorthernEurope, and hadleft traces of theirprogress in theeast and actualtribes in the was from thissource that theGauls (C e 11 as),whom Caesar de-clares to have beendivided into threeraces of Galli,A qui tan i, an dBelgse, were dis-tributed. In all of Europe west of the Rhine the CelticWide distribu- tacc became predominant,thrrghtt^tt: almost to the exclusion of^^^*- other people. If we ex- cept the Basques and Iberians, it maybe said that the whole country betweenthe Rhine and the Atlantic was Celticas to its primitive population. In the preceding book we have alreadypointed out the fact that prehistoric races occupied this part of The Celtic races Europe before the Aryan ^^P.^fnafmigration. What the con- barbarians,dition of the aborigines was at the time. THE CELTIC VANGUARD, OF THE AGE OF by Emile Bayard. of the incoming of the Celts we are left todetermine by conjecture. We have seenthe extreme barbarity which character-ized the aboriginal life of the cavedwellers and other savages to whomprimeval Europe seems to have these rude races the Celtic tribeswere superimposed, and the foundations 498 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. were laid of that condition which weperceive when the expanding power ofRome brought her legions into Gaulishterritory. As the Celtic race continued its way tothe south, several streams of migrationput off laterally to the coast. The mostRamifications of important of these crossedin^hetiitir^ the channel into Britain,Isles. where it again divided, one branch being carried over into Ireland,and the other penetrating the Highlandso
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