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colonists with the British women. Such a process of amalgamation 

 is the inevitable result of a colonisation chiefly male, even where the 

 difiFerence is so extreme as between the white and the red or black 

 races of the New World. But the Anglo-Saxon intruder and the 

 native were on a par physically and intellectually ; and while the 

 former was pre-eminent in all warlike attributes, the latter excelled in 

 the refinements of a civilisation borrowed both from the pagan Roman 

 and the Christian missionary. There was nothing therefore to pre- 

 vent a speedy and complete amalgamation. But if this was an admix- 

 ture of a dolichocephalic with a brachycephalic race, the result should 

 be a hybrid skull of intermediate form ; whereas the modern Anglo- 

 Saxon head is essentially longer than the continental Germanic type. 

 This, therefore, seems to me to point to ethnical characteristics of the 

 British Celt according with the indications already suggested by philo- 

 logical evidence ; and so to lend some countenance to the idea that the 

 Celtse intruded on the brachycephalic barrow-builders of Britain, 

 prior to the dawn of history, introduced among them the higher arts 

 of the Aryan races, and themselves underwent the inevitable change 

 consequent on an intermingling of intruding and native races. 



The Anglo Saxon is a very modern insular intruder. It is novi^ 

 little more than thirteen centuries since he encroached as a stranger on 

 the home of the native Britons. We may allow the latter an undis- 

 turbed occupation for more than double that time, and lengthen the 

 period of their presence in central and north-western Europe, thereby 

 carrying them far back into its .prehistoric night ; and still ample time 

 will remain for Allophylian precursors. But, so far as the British 

 Islands are concerned, the comparatively recent intrusion of, at least, 

 the Belgee, probably of the Cantii and Regni, if not also the Durotriges 

 and Damnonii, and even, as some have maintained, of all the tribes to 

 the south of the Brigantes, found in occupation by the first Roman 

 invaders, is more or less clearly indicated. Britain, moreover, had 

 not been so entirely isolated, prior to the era of Roman invasion as to 

 justify any assumption of its undisturbed occupation by a single native 

 race through all previous centuries. To Tacitus, it is obvious ho such 

 idea presented itself as the probable theory of British population in 

 the first century, though historical evidence to the contrary was little 

 «nore available to him than to us. 



The revolution recently wrought in the opinions of archaeologists 

 and geologists relative to the antiquity of man, renders the idea of 



