appear, from the Aquitani. The three former belong perhaps
severally tp the Autrigones, Warduli, and Vascones>of ancient
authors. •
That the Euskarian language should, extend so far in Gaul
is-jao matter of surprise., The Garonne, as we learn from
Caesar, was the boundary of Aquitania and Gallic Celtics.
We are informed by Strabo that Augustus added to the
province of Aquitaine ten tribes between the Garonne and
the Loire, which were probably Celtic Gauls. These tribes
became Aquitanians in a political, not in an ethnographical
sense. The real Aquitani, as Strabo expressly declatos/were
very different, both, in language and in physical characters,
from the Gauls, and in both these respects restem bled the
IbeiL* Humboldt’s researches confirm this statement;: He has
shown that nearly all the names in Aquitania-proper‘dre- Eu ska-
n a n ; that many have plain significations iff that language,
and the usual Euskarian terminations. The instance which
appear to the contrary are all. explained by historical'facts’.
Lugdunun was built by the Conven8e,,a mixed?aeserfihi;p
from different tribes, who had formed the; armyiof ..SertoriusI
On comparing with the Aquitanian names -those which \4ere
immediately on the northern side of the Garonne, j a striking
difference is immediately perceived. The“ characteristic terminations
of Celtic towns and tribes occur in the dominion of
every tribe, and the traces o f the Euskarian speech immediately
disappear.
S e c t io n \ l.—^Traces of the :ltusfc.aMw®$6-;ifo Countries
beyond the Boundaries of Spain and Aquitaine.
The great body of the Iberian race, as it existed at the era
of the Roman conquest in Spain, was comprehended in that
country and in the neighbouring districts of Aquitaine,‘Where
the Basque language is still spoken. A few scattered branches
of the same stock may be obscurely discerned in periods of
* ’Aicoviravoij<;, t&bhSQ-. kZriXka'fn&ovcj & rij
;aXA.u Kai toi( ffu’fiaff-t/v Ifitpeptig iSj^pflri fioiKKev i) TaXaraj I jib. iv.
rem o ia n tiq udf y iimcbun t r i es* at a distance^ from Spain, and
thedi^esifeiga|i!ct^pi!|©^vferabes may,throw light on the early
jfetory _of the Euskaldurfes^f It cannot-,be determined with
.iebtainty whdt%@1|idh;es^ediains t-arje the vestiges*, of the first
migra-tory»|rp^^p o f the-hberian pePplq, ^supposing them to
kaf^prpceedell ffomttie fjfel^ihrough the South of
Europe and to have*tlrdFl&t r " >sep aftafedfr om the^great mass
of »itheir* populatioiribtel^ind', tk4h#.’@^thei^' wayf; or^ofonies;
which proceededsafaa fatef ^pi^&ed^tfpmiSpain. The former
supposition is-rihe .merite probably; i-feb^ef^atdkast nothing
.Wjlpch can lead1 us to' ad^^dhe&kkern&rif e^$w\ t@. in c lu d e ,
that the tribes-of this!trae@;v^hofmhabked|ia|t»|^n>^arly period
‘Jri^urial, and probably madestheir w-Uy t&nbugh Jta ly into* the
island-^of,tSicilyycame'®|®ginaHy from Spain.“' ' “
- Th©4 eaiiy^Gr-eek writepsi* under the: term Iberia,’«cbmpre-
hend^i^fef. coa^s^'the Mediterranean to i.-thefwestward of
the.TyrrheneSpa, buirit is, uncertain^ what limitations-were
ascribed by them to the,.tracts which they ■|^^eSg?haEted.
•Herodotus saysliAat the Phoeseans^ in their early wayag.es; explored
the Adriatic arffthe Tyrrhene seas^, Iberia and Tartessus."
In the Periplus' of^Seytex, which Niebuhr5 supp'©ses#tO
have vbeen compiled®-from the nautical records -of^anoibnt
-voyagers’ in a^ veryrdaTrly period, the Iberi -me^menrion©d»as
inhabiting thesujoastnof Gaul asj-far eastward as the-mouth-of
the Rhone, hamlets ofi thfe Iberi being *ifeters per sedy among
those of- the Ligurians»* From thelRhoa^to the Arnus,»or
Arno^ was l%pria. There is novestige of any Ligurian people
westward of the Rhone, and if would therefore?; appear probable
that the do.unfry from which it was.traditionally,reported
that the Iberi were'rexpeiled by the Ligurians, musLhavebeen
.to the eastward thaf'rivdr:' We can, on this supposition,
more easilyf understand-' how thigjhelationl is connected with
the story which follows, it, purporting,that-the people.'driven
put. by the Ligurians yfeught refuge in', Sicily, whither they
probahly must-have made their way throtighs Italy." The
fact that the I pecans were among the most ancient inhabit-
* ‘ Airb 5k Itrpuv tyovrai AtXVJS ■Ka.iltrjpsg jjayddeg fikypi irorapov PoSavov•
•Scyl. Caryatid. Peripl. 2, Hudson; 1.