THE

ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.

Preliminary Observations.—The Physical Peculiaritiesof Europe.—General Sketch of its Ethnology.—Statementof Problems.—The Skipetar, or Albanians.—TheirLanguage, Descent.—The Four Tribes.—Howfar a Pure Stock.—Elements of Intermixture.

Spain and Portugal.—The Euskaldunac, or Basques.—TheIberian Stock.—The Turdetanian Civilization.—Phœnician,Roman, Vandal, Gothic Elements.—Keltiberians.—TheOriginal Keltæ Iberians.—The Word“Keltic” of Iberian Origin.—The Arab Conquest.—Expulsionof the Arabs.—The Jews of Spain.—Gipsies.—Physicaland Moral Characteristics of the ModernSpaniards.—Portugal.

France.—Iberian Blood in Gaul as well as the SpanishPeninsula.—Iberians of Gascony, &c.—Ligurians.—Howfar Keltic.—Bodencus.—Intermixture.—Roman, German,Arab.—Alsatia.—Lorraine.—Franche-Comté.—Burgundy,Southern, Western, and Northern France.—Characterof the Kelts.—The Albigensian Crusade.—Belgium.—ItsElements.—Keltic, German, and Roman.—Switzerland.—Helvetia.—Romance,French, and GermanLanguages.

Italy.—Ligurians.—Etruscans.—Venetians andLiburnians.—Umbrians.—Ausonians.—Latins.—Earliest Populationsof North-Eastern Italy.—South Italians.—ItalianOrigin of the Greeks.—Sicilians.—Elements ofAdmixture.—Herulian.—Gothic.—Lombard.—Arab.—Norman.—AnalyticalSketch of the Population of Modern Italy.

Importance of Clearness of Idea respecting the Importof the Word “Race.”—The Pelasgi.—Area of HomericGreece.—Acarnania not Hellenic.—The Dorians.—Egyptian,Semitic, and other Influences.—Historical Greece.—Macedonians.—Greeceunder Rome and Byzantium.—Inroadsof Barbarians.—The Slavonic Conquest.—RecentElements of Admixture.