des Huns, tom.i.p.

179-189, tom ii p.

295, 334-338.] The chain of events is interrupted, or rather is concealed, as it passes from the Volga to the Vistula, through the dark interval which separates the extreme limits of the Chinese, and of the Roman, geography.

Yet the temper of the Barbarians, and the experience of successive emigrations, sufficiently declare, that the Huns, who were oppressed by the arms of the Geougen, soon withdrew from the presence of an insulting victor.
The countries towards the Euxine were already occupied by their kindred tribes; and their hasty flight, which they soon converted into a bold attack, would more naturally be directed towards the rich and level plains, through which the Vistula gently flows into the Baltic Sea.

The North must again have been alarmed, and agitated, by the invasion of the Huns; [6411] and the nations who retreated before them must have pressed with incumbent weight on the confines of Germany.