The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-26
Pellontier. History Of the Celts. (t77i)

The .ancrnt Germans were C,lts Strabo
"a ID. "a saws that they differed Lite from
the Gau!s They were more fcrocnus OF
gran'er stature, and winter bat in other respects
had the same traits customs fond, &c. the peo-
pie Of Scandinavia that is, Sweden, Denmark,
Norway-are Celis: aud that there were Gets
in p,land and Moscow. Old geographers call
the Scaud,aviaus Trutons Teutch or our
| Dutch The Estions (now PruSSians) were
Colts. Tia, the people of Great Britain were
CeIts-frst named Albion, then Britain, because
The word briten, a Celtic word, signifies to
IA mt, or To brighten. The Britons and Gauls
had the same usages religion, names OF princes
and cantons, Cor count,es,) and the same
tongue.
There is til, more difficulty with regard
/, Ireland. But Diod rus Siculus A. Z said
that the inhabitants of Irelnd were the most
ierocious of the Grtse {Go.hs) Dacians, Bas-
tarnes, Visg ',hs, Gepdcs, Vandais, Hernl',
were all Celts. They are supposed to be de-
seconded from Japhe', ihrou!h his son Gomer
and grandson Ascenar. This belief is of high
an'iouily--lhat the Parthlan Cells, or Conner
Ites, SaccS or S01OnS.
CInvier has demonstrated tina the Celts an
ciently occupied 1llyria Germany, France,
Spain, and Great Britain. He sh ud have
added part 9" Poland and Russia, Thrace, Mace
donia, Greece, Italy. and Sicily; that Asia
Minor was full of Cells.
The German language is the remnant of the
Celtic language. The Celts were famous fol
their valor, their f.rociiy to escmes, perfect
Hospitality, fidelity 10 their friends aud to theil
| word, love Of liberty they lived SIMPLY, and
| never had been long subjected. They met il
! assembly and decided all questions by the vote
of the mrnrity For fear Of some one acqnlr
ing undue power, they refused to have cities oil
| fnrtresscs The climates which they occupied
were for the most part mild. The men were
of great stature, f1eshy, white skin, br ght bloc
ming checks, blue eyes, hair flaxen and tl,in
their look fierce and menacing; of a rougl
robust temperament; resisting hunger, thirst
heat, cold, fatigue, aud labor They appearct
to the Greeks 50 tall and stout that the Greciar
| poets described them as monstrOu: giants. The
Latin writers do 50 too. Sidonius said that thu
Bur.undan Cets were seven feet high. TIT
ancients thought that the great stature Il flesh
of the Cclts owing 10 their great eating
and more especially to their great drinking
particularly of beer. Aristotle says that thei
b'uc eyes are caused by the excessive cold @
their countries. Historians agree in their hav
ing fair aud often redish hair Auus Gelliu
saws tina, the children Of the Cells, when frs
barn, have hair as rhitc as old men precisely
The Cchs were great slccpcrs, and very neat \
every thing They painted ON their skins tn
firures of all sorts of animals. One distinctly
custom was to wear their hair very long. The
often dyed the hair reddish. They had n
money whatever. They kept herds Of cattle an
siares Their fidelity and courage were sue
that the Emperor Augustus formed his body
guard of them; his Successors did the same
Tlberus, CaIigula, Nero, aud many others :
Caracnlla confided in them, not in Romans
Juba, king If Mauritinia. was guarded by then
IIerod the Great also; Cleopatra too.
NEW York March p, 1852