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interpretation of what he says about the other 

 Britons 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 : 



" Britarmiae pars interior abiis incolitur, quosnatos in insula 

 ipsi memoria proditum dicnnt : marituma pars ab iis, qui prsedse 

 ac belli inferendi causa ex Belgio transierant ; qui omnes fere iis 

 nominibus civitatnm appellantur quibus orti ex civitatibus eo 

 pervenerunt, et bello inlato ibi permanserunt atque agros 

 colere cceperunt." l 



From these passages it is obvious that, in the 

 opinion of Caesar and Tacitus, the southern Britons 

 resembled the northern Gauls, and especially the 

 Belgya ; 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." 2 



The evidence adduced appears to leave no 

 reasonable 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- 



1 De Bello Gallico, v. 12. 



2 The Geography of Strabo. Translated by Hamilton and 

 Falconer, v. 5. 



