divided amongst the three different bands of this
family:--

"A line which, setting out from the mouth of the Tann, follows the
course of that river, then that of the Rhone, the Iser, the Alps,
the Rhine, the Vosges, the AEdnian hills, the Loire, the Vienne, and
comes at last to rejoin the Garonne, by turning the plateau of
Arvernia: that line would nearly circumscribe the possessions of
the Gallic race. The territory situated to the east of that limit
belonged to the race of the Kimry; it was in time divided into two
portions by the line of the Seine and the Marne, the one northern
and the other southern. To the south, between the Seine and the
Garonne, lived the Kimry of the first invasion, intermingled with
Gallic blood, or the Gallo-Kimry. To the north, between the Seine
and the Rhine, the Kimry of the second invasion, or Belgians. The
Gauls numbered twenty-two nations; the Gallo-Kimry, seventeen; and
the Belgians, twenty-three. These sixty-two nations were subdivided
into many hundred tribes."--(I. 28.)

He then enters into a long and most interesting description of the
domestic manners, and political and religious institutions, of the
Gauls.

After having traced the Gaul for so long in the field, we love to follow
him into his cabin--to observe his appearance, his pursuits, his
habits--to mark the manly figure, the fair complexion, the flowing
yellow locks, the glittering helmet surmounted with the antlers of the
stag, the buckler covered with all the colours of the rainbow, the
polished cuirass flashing back the rays of the morning sun, the heavy
sabre hanging from the gold-bespangled belt, the precious necklace, the
rich armlets, the bright and variegated hues of the martial sagum or
mantle, of the noble Gaulish warrior. We follow him as he turns away
from his clay-built mansion, and, regardless of the silent tears and
entreating looks of his submissive, perhaps ill-used wife, hurries into
the noise and excitement of the battle-field. Observe the wild frenzy
that there seems to seize him, as he rushes with dauntless courage on
the bristling phalanx of his enemies; as, amidst the clouds of dust
which float overhead, and the horrid cries which resound on all sides,
he tears and widens with savage ferocity the fearful gash he has just
received; as, a moment after, overcoming in personal conflict yon
stalwart chief, he decapitates, with on