Descent.—The Catti.
And after these the—
THURINGIANS.
Area.—Bounded, east and west, by the rivers Werra and Saal, the latter a Slavono-Germanic limit. In its southern extension, probably, passing into some language representing the Mœso-Gothic.
Conterminous with the Hessians on the west, either a nation, or a confederacy, and transitional between the High and Low Germans; the—
FRANKS.
Language.—More Dutch than Saxon or Frisian, and (perhaps) more High German than Dutch.
Area.—Indeterminate, but ethnologically bounded by those of the Batavians, Old Saxons, and High Germans. Encroaching; being that of the population which either displaced or incorporated the Old and the Hanoverian Saxons, as well as the greater part of the Slavonians of the Elbe.
Descent.—Usipetes, Ripuarii, Sicambri.