Walloons
or WALLONS, lineal descendants of the old Gallic Belge, who occupy the Belgian provinces of Hai- Namur, and part of South Brabant and west Luxembourg. They to their Flemish They compatriots, and a large proportion of them have black hair and eyes. Their language, also called Walloon, is a French numerous Gallic words, but it somewhat varies in the different provinces. The first permanent colony of New Amsterdam ( New York) contained many tained many Walloons, their present dedistinguished from those of Dutch lineage by their French names.