804 CASTERS AND CHESTEKS. 



his History of the English People with the landing of 

 Hengest and Horsa in the Isle of Thanet. The English 

 people of to-day is far more deeply rooted in the soil than 

 that : our ancestors have lived here, not for a thousand 

 years alone, but for ten thousand or a hundred thousand, 

 in certain lines at least. And the very names of our 

 towns, our rivers, and our hills, go back in many cases, 

 not merely to the Eonian corruptions, but to the abori- 

 ginal Celtic, and the still more aboriginal Euskarian 

 tongue. 



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