From the intro:"The country at the western extremity of Europe which is now named France was originally named in the language of its principal race, Gael-iachd, or the land of the Gaels, from which term the Greeks probably derived their Galatia and Kellika and the Romans their Gallia. It was defined by a remarkable series of natural boundaries-by two large oceans, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic by two lofty chains of mountains, the Alps and the...
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