The History of the Ancient Britons and Their Descendants PDF

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Map No. 1 is intended to aid the reader in tracing the routes taken by the several branches of the Aryan race in their migrations from their original and primitive home, to where we now find them located and fixed.

This would be easier understood if it had been done on a map of a larger scale, with fewer names omitted.

But this will be plain to most readers, with only ordinary knowledge of geography; and any desired assistance can almost anywhere be obtained.<br><br>Our history assumes to treat of this Aryan migration from the cradle to the several places where their descendants are now nationally located.<br><br>Now, we have assumed that the Aryan race had its primitive home in the valley watered by the Euphrates and the Tigris; in the upper part of that interesting valley, while the Hamitic and Shemitic races occupied the lower part, immediately above the head of the Persian Gulf There the residue of the Aryans had been fixed for many centuries, until their civilization and language had been cultivated to that extent, that it is traced in their descendants to this day.

What was the cause of their emigration is not known to history, but it is more than probable that it was an attack by the southern people on the Aryans of the north.

Whatever may have been the cause, it seems that they departed thence in three different streams, to settle and cultivate other portions of the world.

The first of these departed directly to the west, and occupied Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy; and have been generally denominated the Javan or Pelagean family, and more recently, the Greek and Latin races.

The second stream is that which has been denominated the descendants of Gomer, who went north, and fixed their residence on the northern shores of the Euxine sea, near the mouth of the river Tyris, now in Southern Russia, and near the city of Odessa, where they were known to the Greeks as Cimmarians: and everywhere claimed to have been the progenitors of all the C