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North Africa ; or even in Spain, though the Spaniard 

 may boast himself " Hidalgo " or son of the Goth ? 



There is a sense in which all peoples may be 

 called autochthonous, for each new inroad from the 

 frozen north or from the dismal plains of Asia is but 

 a new branch grafted, as it were, upon the ancient 

 stock which still persists. It is not without reason 

 that Englishmen delight to call themselves " Britons," 

 and that in France " un bon Gaulois " means " an 

 honest fellow." For the invasion of the fifth century 

 A.D. has left us " Britons " still ; and France, though 

 " Frankish " in name, preserves to this day both the 

 virtues and the vices of the ancient Gaul. Even the 

 brilliant Athenians, the instructors of the world in 

 art and letters, were not ashamed to call themselves 

 " Pelasgi," for they knew that many of their own high 

 qualities were inherited from that earlier race with 

 whom the hard and warlike Aryans had amalgamated. 



The original Ligurians extended southward into 

 the peninsula. French ethnologists regard the 

 brachycephalic (short-headed) as the true Ligurian 

 type, but Professor Sergi (" The Mediterranean Race," 

 English version, 1901) includes them, together with 

 the Iberians, Pelasgi, and Libyans, in that dolicho- 

 cephalic (long-headed) race which occupied in pre- 

 Aryan times the Mediterranean region and also the 

 western countries of Europe. To this same family 

 belonged the long-barrow men of France and Britain. 

 The Rhone was the dividing line between the Ligurians 

 and Iberians. Mr. Hall (" Romans on the Riviera") 

 has an interesting chapter on the ethnology of Liguria. 



When the plebeian Marius, having supplanted 

 his former general, Metellus, had taken the command 



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