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same as the Tuiirini, Cütîii or Lqwniii, in ^vllose tcrrkovy
the Khine sprung.
The descendants of the Titanian Japetidac may I tliink be
recognized in the Waldenses, the [rish, and the Drigantcs. —
Many proofs may be given that a Cehic dialeól, aUied nearly
to the Irish, once prevailed m Thrace. But I shall have oc-
casion to resmne that subjeci:.
In the niean time, I would offer a few remarks upon the
Goths or Germans, who are sometimes confounded with our
Celta;, because they acquired possession of the same countries;
but who were a ditfereut people, the concpierors of the Celta:,
and eventually the Lords of all Western Europe.
ISTr. Pinkerton, Λνΐιο has made the historj- of this people the
subjeél of his research, delivers it as his opinion, that Asia
gave them birth. To his Iccvrned Dissertation I request the
attention of the reader, for proof that the Goths, the Get» of
Thrace, and Scythians of Little Tartary were the same.
The Geta3 were, to a late period, seated in a confined part
of Thrace, where their manners, and their opinions distin-
guished them from the other inhabitants. See Lierod. L. IV.
The appellation of Scythians, as used by the Greeks,
throws little, if any light upon the origin of a people. .Some
authors distinguished tift}- nations of that name*, many of
* Timonax De Scythis. Αμ. Schol. in Apoll. Argon. IV. v. 320. The
Cimmerii, amongst others, were distinguished by this name, Kim.^ííìoi— T»
Xxy-^txov £•9ΐ".ΐ. Eustath. In Dionys. v. lo/.
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