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         THE
      ETHNOLOGY
          OF
 THE BRITISH ISLANDS.




                               THE
                            ETHNOLOGY
                                OF
                       THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

                                BY
                   R. G. LATHAM, M.D., F.R.S.,
 CORRESPONDING MEMBER TO THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK, ETC.

                             [Device]

                             LONDON:
                JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.

                            MDCCCLII.




                 LONDON:
 PRINTED BY T. E. METCALF, 63, SNOW HILL.




CONTENTS.


                             CHAPTER I.
                                                                    PAGE
 Preliminary Remarks.--Present Populations of the British Isles.--
 Romans, &c.--Pre-historic Period.--The Irish Elk.--How far
 Contemporaneous with Man.--Stone Period.--Modes of Sepulture.--
 The Physical Condition of the Soil.--Its Fauna.--Skulls of the
 Stone Period.--The Bronze Period.--Gold Ornaments.--Alloys and
 Castings.--How far Native or Foreign.--Effect of the Introduction
 of Metals.--Dwellings.                                                1


                             CHAPTER II.

 Authorities for the Earliest Historical Period.--Herodotus.--
 Aristotle.--Polybius.--Onomacritus.--Diodorus Siculus.--Strabo.--
 Festus Avienus.--Ultimate sources.--Damnonii.--Ph[oe]nician
 Trade.--The Orgies.--South-Eastern Britons of Caesar.--The Details
 of his Attacks.--The Caledonians of Galgacus.                        38


                             CHAPTER III.

 Origin of the Britons.--Kelts of Gaul.--The Belgae.--Whether
 Keltic or German.--Evidence of Caesar.--Attrebates, Belgae, Remi,
 Durotriges and Morini, Chauci and Menapii.                           58


                             CHAPTER IV.

 The Picts.--List of Kings.--Penn Fahel.--Aber and Inver.--The
 Picts probably, but not certainly, Britons.                          76


                             CHAPTER V.

 Origin of the Gaels