From this language, he says, sprung the Greek or Pelasgic, prior to Hesiod and Homer--the Latin or that of Numa--the Etruscan, spoken in a considerable part of Italy--the Thracian, spoken on the Danube, from the Euxine to the Adriatic sea, which was the same as the Phrygian--the Teutonic or German, spoken from the Vistula to the Rhine--the Gaulish, spoken on the Alps, in Italy, on this side the Po, and from the Rhine to the Ocean, including France, the Low Countries, Switzerland, Alemain, and the two Bretagnes--also the Cantabrian, or ancient language of Spain--in short, the Runic, spoken in the North, Denmark, Sweden, &c. The only pure remains of this primitive Celtic, the same author supposes, are found in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany in France, where the people still speak dialects of a language which is proved to be the ancient British. "Separes ainsi du reste de l'univers, ces debris des anciens Celtes ont conservé leurs anciens usages, & parlent une langue qui n'a aucun rapport a celles des peuples qui les ont subjugués, & qui s'est partagée en trois dialectes, le Gallois, le Cornouaillien, & le Bas Breton; dialectes qui ont entr'eux le plus grand rapport, & qui sont incontestablement les precieux restes de l'ancienne langue des Celtes ou des Gaulois."----Dis. Prelim. "Separated from the rest of the world, these remains of the ancient Celts have preserved their ancient customs, and speak a language which _has no agreement with those of their conquerors_, and which is divided into three dialects, the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Armoric--dialects which have a close affinity with each other, and which are, beyond dispute, the precious remains of the ancient Celtic or Gaulish language."[128] In this passage the author seems to contradict what he had just before advanced, that the Celtic was the primitive language of Europe, from which sprung the Gothic or German. Now the Franks, Normans and Saxons, who subdued Gaul and Britain, spoke dialects of the Gothic; consequently there must have been, upon our author's own hypothesis, some agreement between the ancient Celtic and the more modern languages of the Goths, Saxons, and other northern conquerors of the Celtic nations. This agreement will appear, when I come to collate a number of words in the different languages.