--- In [email protected], off_world_beings 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings 
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> > > The Celts were here long before Columbus, and some native 
> American 
> > > languages have much gaelic in them. The similarities are 
> striking. 
> > > Place names (and meanings), names of rivers (and meanings) etc.
> > > They must have been friendly and respectful to each other.
> > 
> > I've read that somewhere.  What happened to
> > them, any idea?
> > 
> > The only trouble is that for any given group
> > of people, there's *somebody* who is absolutely
> > positive they settled here at some point, 
> > including Vedic Indians and Israelites (there
> > are claims that the Native Americans were the
> > Lost Tribes thereof), as well as various groups
> > of refugees from Atlantis. >>
> 
> It is a scholarly fact that the Celts came to New England. Not some 
> vague sectarian myth.

Wasn't suggesting it was.  That's why I went
on to ask what had happened to them.

> Little is known of what happened to them. Perhaps you are thinking 
> that because the Pilgrims were so vulnerable here that the Celts 
> would be also.

Uh, no, I was thinking that the Celts don't seem
to, you know, be here any longer.

<snip>
> One must not assume just because they arrived that they did not go 
> back and forth.

I wasn't assuming that.

<uncrossing eyes>

Thanks for your speculations (about the Celts, at
any rate).





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