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They lived amid forests and swamps hard to penetrate; they claimed kindred with the German tribes rather than with the more fickle and effeminate Celts; and they had a fierce and resolute spirit of independence, like that whichtheir descendants, the Dutch, exhibited long after in the same regions against the armies of Spain.