Great Britain and Ireland

Iceland, Nova Zembla, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Crete, the Ionian and the Balearic Islands are the chief islands of Europe. Europe is occupied by several different peoples or races, in many parts now greatly intermingled. The Celts once po e ed the W. of Europe from the Alpg to the British Islands. But the Celtic nationalities were broken by the wave of Roman conquest, and the suceeding invasions of the Germanie tribes completed their ruin. At the present day the Celtic language ig spoken only in the Scotch eo | (Gaelic), in some parts of Ireland (irish), in Wales (Cymric), and in Britt any (Armor i can). Next to the Celtic comes the Teutonic race, comprehending the Germanic and Scand in avian branches. The former includes the Germans, the Dutch, and the English. The Scand in avians are divided into Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. To the E., in general, of the Teutonic race, howe sometimes mixed with it, come the Slavonians, that is, the Ru ians, the Poles, the Czechs or Bohemians, the Servians, Croatians, etc. In the S. and S. BE. of Europe are the Greek and Latin — the latter comprising the. talians, French, Spanish and Portuguese. All the above peoples are regarded as belonging to the Indo-European or Aryan stock.