mies having
advanced south'? Do we not find four famous cases--the irruption of the
Cimbri and Teutons into Italy; the passage of the Danube by the
Visigoths; and the invasions of Italy first by the Ostrogoths, then by
the Lombards--in which the nations came with men, women, and children,
horses, cattle, and dogs, bag and baggage? May not this have been the
custom of the race, with its strong feeling for the family tie; and may
not this account for no traces of them being left behind?

Does not Dr. Latham's theory proceed too much on an assumption that the
Sclavonians dispossest the Teutons by force? And is not this assumption
his ground for objecting that the movement was effected improbably 'by
that division of the European population (the Sclavonic and Lithuanian)
which has, within the historic period, receded before the Germanic'?

Are these migrations, though 'unrepresented in any history' (i.e.
contemporaneous), really 'unrepresented in any tradition'? Do not the
traditions of Jornandes and Paulus Diaconus, that the Goths and the
Lombards came from Scandinavia, represent this very fact?--and are they
to be set aside as naught? Surely not. Myths of this kind generally
embody a nucleus of truth, and must be regarded with respect; for they
often, after all arguments about them are spent, are found to contain the
very pith of the matter.

Are the 'phenomena of replacement and substitution' so very strange--I
will not say upon the popular theory, but at least on one half-way
between it and Dr. Latham's? Namely--

That the Teutonic races came originally, as some of them say they did,
from Scandinavia, Denmark, the South Baltic, &c.

That they forced their way down, wave after wave, on what would have been
the line of least resistance--the Marches between the Gauls, Romanized or
otherwise, and the Sclavonians. And that the Alps and the solid front of
the Roman Empire turned them to the East, till their vanguard found
itself on the Danube.

This would agree with Dr. Latham's most valuable hint, that Markmen, 'Men
of the Marches,' was perhaps the name of many German tribes successively.

That they fought, as they went, with the Sclavonian and other tribes (as
their traditions seem to report), and rolled them back to the eastward;
and that as each Teutonic tribe past down the line, the Sclavonians
rolled back again, till the last column was past.

That the Teutons also carried down with them, as slaves or al