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But though it be disputable whether the British, Greek or Dutch was the original language of the Gauls, certain it is that it was the Walloon (but I confine myself to Gallia Celt'tca, which, when the Roman eagle had fastened his talons there, and planted twenty-three legions up and down the country, he did in tract of time utterly extinguish) ; it being the ordinary ambition of Rome wheresoever she prevailed, to bring in her language and laws also with the lance, which yet she could not do in S...pain or this island, because they had posts and places of fastness to retire unto as Biscay and Wales, where Nature hath cast up those mountains as pro- pugnacles of defence, therefore the very aboriginal languages of both countries remain there to this day. Now, France being a passable and plain pervious HOWELL'S FAMILIAR LETTERS 97 continent, the Romans quickly diffused and rooted Purity of themselves in every part thereof, and so co-planted the Latin their language, which in a short revolution of time ^^"" came to be called Romance.
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