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PELLoNTIER.- R.-HIsToRY OF THE cELTs, q771)
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TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH H. AEIGs.
The CELTs originally knew not how to read and write.
Almost all Europewas inhabited by and the same
peopethat is to say, the Cets-named, however, gene
rally from the country they inhabited Scythians the
Greeks styled all those who lived along the river Danube
and from that to the extreme north The Scythans and
Sarmatians occupied all Europe The ancens understood
the of Hyperborean those Cets of the north be-
yond the Riphean mountains
When the Romans penetrated beyond the Danube they
found that vast country inhabited by people entirely
different from themselves and whom they called,
Cets, some Iberians Celtberans Gauls
Germans The Sarmatians Sauromatans, these speak
at this day the Scavonc language Such are the Bohe
mians, Poles, Moscovites sc. The Ces had cavalry,
and the hussar dress-a short MANTLE which they
called saga much like the dress of the mounaineers
Of Scotland The ancient inhabitants Of Spain Portugal
and France were Celts.
julius Caesar tells that in his day the Cets occupied
but third part of Gaul France and that there were
three different languages among them say three dialects
of the same language that the Celtic language dvid
ed an nnity Of dialects SO that Celts time
moved from each other did not understand each other
that the Tudesyne asy Dutch) only Celtic dialect
Pausanas says that all the Gaus formerly called
Celts that this name is generic one
The ancient Germans were Cels (xAro as the Greeks
said keito strabo CAD. 14) says that they differed
little from the Gauls They were more ferocous, OF
stature and winter but ether respects had the
traits customs, food, &c that the people Of Sean
dinavia-that is Sweden, Denmark, Norway-are Colts
and that Ccits in Poland and Moscovy OLD
geographers call the Scandnavans Teutons: Teutch o,
our Dutch. The Estions (now Prussians} were Celts
That the people Of Great Britain Celtsrst named
Albion then Britain, because the word brtten, Celtic
word signifies to paint or to brighten The Britons ant
Gaus had the same usages religion names Of princes ant
cantons, (or countless and the same tongue.
There is little difficulty with regard to Ireland
But Dodorus Siculus (AC said that the inhabitants
Ireland the ferocious of the Gaus The Gets
Goths Dacans, Bastarnes, ysgoths, Gepides vandals
Heru, were all Celts They supposed to be descend
ed from Japhet, through his Conner and grandson
Ascenar This Belief is Of high antiquity-tha the Par
THAN Celts or Gomerites, Sdees or Sarons
Cuver has demonstrated that the Celts ancienty
pied Hyra, Germany, France Spain, and Great Britain
He should have added part of Poland and Russia Thrace
Macedonia Greece Italy, and Sicily that Asia Minor was
lulfl of Celts.
The German language is the of the Celtic lam
guage The Celts famous for their yaor, their fe
rocy to enemies perfect hospitality fidelity to their
friends and to their word love Of liberty; they lived SIM
ply and never had been long subjected They met in
sembly and decided all questions by the vote of the
jory For fear of some acquiring undue power they
refused have cities fortresses The climates which
they occupied were for the most part mild The men
of great stature eshy white skin, bright blooming
cheeks blue eyes, hair faxen and thin their look fierce
and menacing Of rough robust temperament resisting
hunger, thirst heat, cold, fatigue, and labor They ap-
peared the Greeks tall and stout that the Grecian
poets described them monstrous giants. The Latin
writers do Sdonius said that the Burgundian
Cets feet high The ancients thought tina,
the great stature and flesh Of the Cets owing to their
particularly Of beer Aristotle says that their blue e
caused by the excessive cold of their countries His
torans agree in their having fair and often reddish hair
Aulus Geius says that the children of the Celts when
first born, have hair uhie old precisely. The
Ces great seepers, and very neat in every thing
They painted their skins the figures Of all sorts Of ami
mails One distinctive custom to their hair very
long They often dyed the hair reddish. They had no
money whatever. They kept herds of cattle and save
They deemed all labor agricultural mechanical base
More Celts died Of drunkenness than by Their de
ty and courage such that the Emperor Augustus
formed his body guard Of them his successors did the
same Tberius, Cagula, Nero, and many others Cara
Gala confded in them, not in Romans Juba, King Of
Mauritania guarded by them; Herod the Great also
/ Cleopatra too.
NEW YORK. MARCH 25, 1882