After the departure of those Barbarians, their native country, which was marked by the vestiges of their greatness, long ramparts, and gigantic moles, [69] remained, during some ages, a vast and dreary solitude; till the human species was renewed by the powers of generation, and the vacancy was filled by the influx of new inhabitants.
The nations who now usurp an extent of land which they are unable to cultivate, would soon be assisted by the industrious poverty of their neighbors, if the government of Europe did not protect the claims of dominion and property.
[Footnote 6411: There is no authority which connects this inroad of the Teutonic tribes with the movements of the Huns.

The Huns can hardly have reached the shores of the Baltic, and probably the greater part of the forces of Radagaisus, particularly the Vandals, had long occupied a more southern position .-- M.] [Footnote 65: Procopius (de Bell.Vandal.l.i.c.

iii.p.

182) has observed an emigration from the Palus Maeotis to the north of Germany, which he ascribes to famine.

But his views of ancient history are strangely darkened by ignorance and error.] [Footnote 66: Zosimus (l.v.p.