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peculiar, fascinating ugliness, which could almost be called beauti- 

 ful. "We have here undoubtedly to do with a neolithic northern 

 race, perhaps related to the Lapps or Finns. I would like to merely 

 mention here that certain archeological traces point to an early con- 

 nection between the British Isles and Scandinavia. (British Mu- 

 seum Guide of the Bronze Age, pp. 24, 31, 146.) 



The other pre-Celtic race, found chiefly in southern Ireland, is of 

 tall and slender build, predominantly dolichocephalic, with dark 

 hair and eyes, of the Mediterranean type, and so much resembling 

 the Spaniards that there is a common legend that these people are 

 descendants of the Spaniards who, after the destruction of the great 

 armada, found refuge on the coast of Ireland. They can not be 

 Ligurians, as Jullien assumes, because the Ligurians were small and 

 weakly, and the Iberians suggest themselves as the nearest approach 

 to the truth. Numerous other archeological traces of the neolithic 

 and bronze ages point likewise to a close connection between Spain 

 and Ireland. There is added to this the testimony of Tacitus about 

 the Silurians in Wales. 



I was not able to pursue close anthropological studies in Wales, 

 still I could also here clearly discern the predominance of the non- 

 Indo-European element. The same traces could also be followed up 

 in Scotland and Cornwall. 



But if we assume that the aborigines did not entirely succvnnb to 

 the invading Celts, and even forced on them their sorcerers, their 

 national consciousness must have been very strong, and this it was, 

 for to the present day it has left its traces in the British Isles. 



Passing over the linguistic remains, which have survived in the 

 topography and the Celtic languages, also the innumerable fetish- 

 stones which are met with in the British Isles and which are still 

 venerated — there may be mentioned only a few interesting points out 

 of the rich material. 



The testimony of Diodorus and Strabo about cannibalism among 

 the British is confirmed by St. Jerome, who, in his Adversus Jovinia- 

 num, says : " TVTiat shall I say of other nations when as a young 

 boy I myself in Gaul saw the Atecotti, a British tribe, eating 

 human flesh? And while they have in the woods herds of pigs and 

 cattle they are in the habit of cutting oS the soft parts of the 

 shepherds and the breasts of women, considering these alone as 

 delicacies." (Quid loquar de ceteris nationibus, cum ipse adolescen- 

 tulus in Gallia viderim Atecottos, gentem Britannicam, humanis 

 vesci carnibus? Et cum per silvas porcorum greges et amientorum 

 pecudumque reperirent, pastorum nates et feminarum papillas solere 

 abscindere et eas solas ciborum delicias arbitrari?) Nobody will 

 maintain that such customs can be ascribed to Indo-Europeans. A 

 dim recollection of those times still survives among the Celtic people, 



