version was made by the Eastern Goths and in a dialect far removed from the Scandinavian German; but it is because they believe, with some probability, that the Goths of the Pontus Euxinus came originally from Scandinavia, or at least from the Baltic Sea. Now the language or the dialect of these ancient Goths is very different from the modern German, although it has the same linguistic basis. The ancient Gallic was still more different, to judge by the language most nearly approaching the true Gallic, which is that of the country of Wales, Cornwall, and Basse-Bretagne; but the Irish differs therefrom still more and shows us traces of a Britannic, Gallic and Germanic language, still more ancient. But all these languages come from one source, and may be taken as modifications of one and the same language, which may be called the ~Keltic. Thus the ancients called both the Germans and the Gauls Kelts; and in going back farther in order to understand the origin both of the Keltic and the Latin and the Greek, which have many roots in common with the Germanic or Keltic tongues, we may conjecture that this fact arises from the common origin of all these peoples descended from the Scythians, who, having come from the Black Sea, passed the Danube and the Vistula, and of whom one part may have gone into Greece, the other have filled Germany and the Gauls; a consequence of the hypothesis which makes the Europeans come from Asia. The Sarmatian (supposing it to be the Sclavonic) has at least half its origin either Germanic or common with the Germanic. The case appears to be somewhat similar, indeed, in the Finnish language, which is that of the most ancient Scandinavians, before the Germanic peoples, i.e. the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, had taken possession of the land which is the best and nearest the sea; and the language of the Finns or of the northeast of our continent, which is also that of the Lapps, extends from the German or Norwegian Ocean even to the Caspian Sea (although interrupted by the Sclavic peoples which have been thrust in between the two) and has some relation to the Hungarian, having come from the countries which are now in part under the Muscovites. But the Tartar language, which has filled the northeast of Asia, with its variations, appears to have been that of the Huns and Cumans as it is of the Uzbeks or Turkomans, of the Kalmuks and of the Mongols. Now all these languages of Scythia have many roots common among themselves and with ours, and it is found that even the Arabic