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Excerpt from The History of France, Vol. 1: Civil and Military, Ecclesiastical, Political, Literary, Commercial, &C., &C.; From the Time of Its Conquest by Clovis, A. D. 486 The Celtes, faid to be defeended from Gomer, Native Were the original inhabitants of Gaul. The time and manner of their fettlement, and their hi ory in general till they were invaded and conquered by the Romans, are involved in much obfcurity. The country is naturally fertile, and the climate temperate: their population was rapid; and they repeatedly fent off powerful colonies to other countries in queit of fettlements. They ina vaded Italy, threatened Greece, and actually fettled a colony in that part of Phrygia, which from them received the' name of Galatia and Gallo-graecia. Wherever they went, as colonifls to fettle, or as armies to fupport and defend their ins fant fettlements, their arms were dreaded, and their very name became formidable. Oppofed and pro. Voked by the Romans in one of their expeditions in Italy, they turned their arms againfl Rome, and took and burnt that venerable city. So much were they dreaded, that the freedom from military fer vice allowed by the Roman Rate to prielts and old men in other wars, was denied them by law in the cafe of an invafion by the, Gauls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."