The Druids are the archive’s western diffusion node, and Adams sets them among the Celtes, the primitive nations from whom she says most of Europe was peopled.
In Hannah Adams
In Adams’s own words, from the 1817 Dictionary. Each passage is quoted verbatim under its own entry.
CELTES, (or Celt.®,) one of the primitive nations, by which most parts of Europe were peopled. The Druids were their priests and judges. Their Religion was pure Paganism without images, hut they worshipped in consecrated groves.^ See Druids and Pagans.
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, 4th ed. (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817), entry “Celtes” (p. 54).