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distinguished from those of the later ones by the long narrow 

 head, the want of obliquity in the neck of the thigh bone, and 

 flatness of that bone beneath the trochanters. 



The stone forts above Weston-super-Mare may be concluded to 

 belong to the stone age, or Gaelic period, from the dry stone walls 

 constructed to support the loose stones (as is often the case in 

 long barrows), and from the pits contained within the inclosure 

 having seats round them, a little beneath the surface of the soil, 

 like the seat in the stone cots, or shepherd-houses, near the long 

 barrows on the Cotteswolds. Some years ago there was a very 

 perfect one near Bibury. 



Thus there are traces of four distinct races of men occupying 

 these districts before the Romans : — 



1. The small narrow long-headed race of the earth-tumuli ; 



2. The tall and narrow long-headed race of the early stone- 

 tumuli ; 



3. The mixed race of the long barrows ; 



4. The short-headed race of the bi'onze period, mixed in many 

 instances with a longer-headed race. 



The Romans are a small race with square high- vaulted skulls. 



The names of many places and objects may be brought forward 

 to prove (as fiir as possible) the prevalent languages in this far 

 distant period, and the races by whom these pre-historic works 

 were constructed. 



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