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a distinct nation from them both. Thus Zosimus, an historian of the third century, includes them all under the common name of Scythians; and this at a time when, after their long and frequent intercourse with the Romans, their historians ought to have been taught to distinguish them better.
But notwithstanding the general resemblances between the Germans and Gauls, or in other words, the Teutonic and Celtic nations, they are sufficiently distinguished from each other, and differ considerably in their person, manners, laws, religion, and language.
Cæsar expressly assures us, that the Celts or inhabitants of Gaul, differed in language, custom, and laws, from the Belgæ, on the one hand, who were chiefly a Teutonic people, and from the inhabitants of Aquitain on the other, who
