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The second class he denominated Pelasgian, and characterized 

 by Vjeing walls composed of huge stones, likewise laid on their 

 broader and longer surfaces, but sufficiently worked to have their 

 angles fit into each other, so as to have no smaller stones to fill 

 the interstices. They present also the evidence of a gradual ap- 

 proach to regular courses, and by degrees, as they become more 

 regular, the stones diminish in bulk till they pass into what has 

 been denominated the old Etruscan style. These are exemplified 

 by the walls and gates of Mycense and Talon, in Greece, the gate 

 of Segni and the walls of Proeneste, Fiesole, Todi, Populonia, in 

 Italy, and lastly of Cosa, in the same country, the lower portion 

 of which is Pelasgian, in all its bulk, and the upper Etruscan. 



The third, distinguished by the names of Gomerian-Celtic, 

 and Celto-Scythic, differs from the two former by being compo- 

 sed of still larger and often of enormous blocks of stone, not laid 

 upon the surface but pitched on end, frequently on their smaller 

 end, and filled in by smaller stones; these are placed rather at 

 the back than in the interstices. Of this class are cromlechs, 

 logging stones, wrenches, rock idols, Ophite temples or dracontia, 

 clachans, emris or stone circles, &c. Circular walls also occur in 

 many places composed of smaller unhewn stones, but piled up 

 with great ingenuity. Monuments of this class are extended over 

 an amazing surface of the earth, beginning near Macao, in China, 

 and' the Loochoo Islands, they are found in India, Persia, Europe, 

 and even North America. 



Having shewn the connection of these buildings with some of 

 the earliest tribes that peopled southern and western Europe, the 

 lecturer proceeded to describe the Vasconic and Cantabrian race, 

 still residing in the fastnesses of the western Pyrenees ; their 

 frontier strong-holds, named Calagurris, one in France, the other 

 on the Ebro, and their capital Pampelo. This people, by their 

 physical form, their language, and other circumstances, appear to 

 have been originally perfectly distinct from every Celtic tribe. 

 So also were the Ceretani, inhabiting the Cerdagne, in the eastern 

 Pyrenees, who may have been of the same origin with the Chere- 

 tim of Asia and Crete. 



The next race noticed was that of the Ligurians, the same as 

 the Llogrwys of the Welsh. With this race was connected the 

 tribe of Heneti, Henydd of the Welsh, who appear to hav^e been 

 of the same stock with the Henetoi, Heneti, or Veneti of the 

 Adriatic. They were related to the Liburnians, further east, and 

 probably were connected with the Lestrigons of the Greek poets. 



