y. From St. Martin, vol.
vii p. 141. Malte-Brun, on the contrary, conceives that the Bulgarians
took their name from the river. According to the Byzantine historians
they were a branch of the Ougres, (Thunmann, Hist. of the People to
the East of Europe,) but they have more resemblance to the Turks. Their
first country, Great Bulgaria, was washed by the Volga. Some remains
of their capital are still shown near Kasan. They afterwards dwelt in
Kuban, and finally on the Danube, where they subdued (about the year
500) the Slavo-Servians established on the Lower Danube. Conquered in
their turn by the Avars, they freed themselves from that yoke in 635;
their empire then comprised the Cutturgurians, the remains of the Huns
established on the Palus Maeotis. The Danubian Bulgaria, a dismemberment
of this vast state, was long formidable to the Byzantine empire.
Malte-Brun, Prec. de Geog Univ. vol. i. p. 419.--M. ----According to
Shafarik, the Danubian Bulgaria was peopled by a Slavo Bulgarian race.
The Slavish population was conquered by the Bulgarian (of Uralian and
Finnish descent,) and incorporated with them. This mingled race are
the Bulgarians bordering on the Byzantine empire. Shafarik, ii 152, et
seq.--M. 1845]

[Footnote 12: Procopius, (Goth. l. iv. c. 19.) His verbal message (he
owns him self an illiterate Barbarian) is delivered as an epistle. The
style is savage, figurative, and original.]

[Footnote 13: This sum is the result of a particular list, in a curious
Ms. fragment of the year 550, found in the library of Milan. The obscure
geography of the times provokes and exercises the patience of the count
de Buat, (tom. xi. p. 69--189.) The French minister often loses himself
in a wilderness which requires a Saxon and Polish guide.]

[Footnote 14: Panicum, milium. See Columella, l. ii. c. 9, p. 430, edit.
Gesner. Plin. Hist. Natur. xviii. 24, 25. The Samaritans made a pap
of millet, mingled with mare's milk or blood. In the wealth of
modern husbandry, our millet feeds poultry, and not heroes. See the
dictionaries of Bomare and Miller.]

[Footnote 15: For the name and nation, the situation and manners, of
the Sclavonians, see the original evidence of the vith century,
in Procopius, (Goth. l. ii. c. 26, l. iii. c. 14,) and the emperor
Mauritius or Maurice (Stratagemat. l. ii. c. 5, apud Mascon Annotat.
xxxi.) The stratagems of Maurice have been printed only, as I
understand, at the end of Scheffer's edition of Arrian's