Note 260 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
“Celtic Spain.”—Moore’s History of Ireland, vol. i. p. l.
“The Celts covered with their settlements, and perhaps even simultaneously possessed a space of country extending from the Pillars of Hercules to Asia Minor, and beyond the Caucasus, and from the banks of the Tiber to the Ultima Thule of Scotland and Greenland.”—Dr. Meyer, Report of British Association, 1847, p. 303.
“The Celts were known to the Greeks only by name, and they included under it, all the people between the Oder and the Tagus. Even the Romans * * included the Iberians, &c.”—Brown’s History of the Highland Clans.
Prichard says, “Of the Asiatic European stock, the first great family is the Celts, once spread over Asia Minor (Galatia), Spain, France, Belgium, Helvetia, a great part of Germany, and throughout the British Isles.” He includes under this one head, Thracians, Armenians, Asiatic Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Slavonians, Lithuanians, and Germans.