The Kelt or Gael - His Ethnography, Geography, and Philology #261430

Pliny expressly states that the Greeks called all Spain Iberia after the river.1 It is from the incorrect use of this expression kelt-iberian that another error arose, namely, that Spain alone produced a small, dark, pre-historic race of men, Sometimes called Kelts and sometimes Iberians, but equally incorrectly. That there was such a small race in Spain is vouched for by men who learn their facts and measure their language; but now the little men have been traced through every country in Europe, from Southern Spain to the Caucasus, and also in Britain. They were pre-keltic, pre~german, and pre-slav: they were a link in the Chain of evolution; but there is no greater ground for calling them Iberian than for calling them Caucasian.