So is the archæological part of both the Greek and Roman ethnology, i.e. the relations of the Hellenes and Latins to the early inhabitants of their respective peninsulas.
So is the analysis of their present representatives, e. g. the question as to the amount of Slavonic, Italian, or Albanian blood in the modern Greek, or the determination of the Keltic, Roman, and Gothic elements amongst the French.
Of the sub-divisions of the—
ITALIAN BRANCH
the following classification is, perhaps, the most convenient; to which the previous arrangement of the ethnological elements into a, the Original; b, the Roman; and c, the Superadded, gives precision.
1. Italians.—Original Elements—a, Samnite, Etruscan, Keltic(?), Ligurian, &c.; b, Roman of Rome; c, German.
2. Hesperians. (Spanish and Portuguese).—a, Iberian, Celtic(?); b, Roman of the time of the second Punic war; c, Gothic, Arabian.
3. French.—a, Celtic for the North, Iberian for the South; b, Roman, chiefly from the time of Cæsar; c, German.
4. Swiss of Graubündten.—a, Undetermined; b, Roman of an uncertain, though probably late, period; c, German.
5. Wallachians.—a, Undetermined; probably Slavonic; b, Roman of the time of Trajan; c, Turk (Hun, Comanian, and Bulgarian), Slavonic, German, Ottoman, Turk.