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must depend upon what we learn from other 

 sources as to the characters of these " Galli." Here 

 the testimony of " divus Julius" comes in with 

 great force and appropriateness. Caesar writes: — 



" Britannise pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos natos in 

 insula ipsi niemoria proditum dicunt: marituma pars ab 

 iis, qui prsedae ac belli inferendi causa ex Belgio transie- 

 rant; qui omnes fere iis nominibus civitatum appellantur 

 quibus orti ex civitatibus eo pervenerunt, et bello inlato 

 ibi permanserunt atque agros colere coeperunt." * 



From these passages it is obvious that, in the 

 opinion of Caesar and Tacitus, the southern Britons 

 resembled the northern Gauls, and especially the 

 Belgae; and the evidence of Strabo is decisive as 

 to the characters in which the two people resem- 

 bled one another: " The men [of Britain] are taller 

 than the Kelts, with hair less yellow; they are 

 slighter in their persons." f 



The evidence adduced appears to leave no rea- 

 sonable ground for doubting that, at the time of 

 the Roman conquest, Britain contained people of 

 two types, the one dark and the other fair com- 

 plexioned, and that there was a certain difference 

 between the latter in the north and in the south 

 of Britain: the northern folk being, in the judg- 

 ment of Tacitus, or, more properly, according to 

 the information he had received from Agricola and 

 others, more similar to the Germans than the lat- 



* Dc Bello Gallico, v. 12. 



f The Geography of Strabo. Translated by Hamilton 

 and Falconer, v. 5. 



