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from their vicinity to Spain, were probably of Iberian extraction; and Cæsar ought certainly to be considered as complete master of the subject. Tacitus also has observed a striking difference in the persons of the Germans, Gauls, and Spaniards.
They differed also in customs and manners. To instance only in one point, among the Germans, the wife did not give a dowry to her husband, but the husband to the wife. Among the Gauls, the husband received a portion in money with his wife, for which he made her a suitable settlement of his goods.
They differed no less in their institutions and laws. The Celtic nations do not appear to have had that equal plan of liberty, which was the peculiar characteristic of all the Gothic tribes, and
