2. Thucydides, those of Cleonæ, Dium, and Olophyxus on the peninsula of Mount Athos. The Pelasgi of the third locality, the Asiatic Pelasgi, or the Herodotean Pelasgi of the parts about Plakia and Skylake, near Cyzicus, may reasonably be considered as settlers of comparatively recent origin, both from the general phenomena of ethnological distribution, and the most scientific interpretation of the few _data_ we possess for the ancient ethnology of Asia Minor. But the Pelasgi of Chreston and Mount Athos, are in localities wherein they may as easily be aboriginal as intrusive. Which were they? I cannot make up my mind; I can only exhaust the two alternatives. If aboriginal, they were one of three things, Skipetar, Slavonic, or members of an extinct stock; if intrusive, members of some extinct stock, Asiatic or Italian. How they may have been, this is easily understood. 1. An eastern extension of the oldest Skipetar area would carry a population akin to the ancestors of the present Albanians as far as the Ægean. 2. A southern extension of the Thracian area would carry the ancient Thracian stock as far as Thessaly. 3. Semitic, or other Asiatic colonies, would give us a series of maritime settlements. 4. So would a series of very early Italian colonizations. These we may deduce from some part of Italy, different from the mother-country of the true Hellenic Greeks; and we may, also, assume a difference in the date of the movement. In such a case the Pelasgi may have been Hellenic, as the Anglo-Saxons were Scandinavian; in other words, out of two Italian colonizations one (the Pelasgic) may have been the analogue to the Angle, the other (the Hellenic) to the Danish invasion of Britain. Of these alternatives I prefer the second and fourth to the first and third. The name itself seems to have been applied to one stock only, not to several--though the evidence of this is by no means conclusive. It seems not to have been _native_. Native names are, usually, more specific and less general. It was a name which A gave to B, not one which B gave itself. It seems to have been originally other than Greek.