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exactly with the areas occupied by the Celtic population 

 and the German, or Teutonic, invaders. The larger or 

 domestic urus extends throughout the low and fertile 

 country, and indeed through all the regions which were 

 occupied by Angle, Jute, Saxon, or Dane, while the smaller 

 Bos long if Tons is to be found only in those broken and 

 rugged regions in which the unhappy Roman provincials 

 were able to make a stand against their ruthless enemies. 

 The distribution, therefore of the two animals corroborates 

 the truth of the view taken by Mr. Freeman, that the conquest 

 of Britain by the English was not a mere invasion of one 

 race by another, but as complete a dispossession as could 

 possibly be imagined. The Bos longifrons lingers in Wales, 

 after having once occupied the whole country, just as its 

 Celtic owners still linger, while the urus is an invader just 

 in the same sense as their English possessors. Both these 

 animals were kept in a domestic state on the Continent, and 

 they make their appearance with all the domestic animals, 

 except the cat, in the possession of the dwellers on the Swiss 

 lakes in the neolithic age. The B. longifrons is of a stock 

 foreign to Europe, and the urus most probably was domesti- 

 cated in some other region by those neolithic people. Both 

 these animals have probably been derived from an area to 

 the south and east of Europe, and were introduced by the 

 neolithic herdsmen and farmers at a very remote period, 



