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peaceful and gradual because Cornish names were still in 

 existence. Had it not been peaceful the Anglo-Saxon, when he 

 saw the native, would have killed him. It seemed to him that 

 there was an actual barrier of Anglo-Saxon blood between 

 Devon and Cornwall. 



Mr. T. Robins Bolitho remarked that the surnames in Cornwall 

 were certainly Celtic names, and if they analysed them they 

 adapted themselves more to the name of the place than the 

 man. With regard to Saxons and Celts the former was put 

 down as a much more vigorous race than the other. They could 

 not help recognising the fact that in the time of Athelstan there 

 was an outbreak in Exeter, and he had to oome down and 

 repress the Celts who seemed to be getting rather the better of 

 the Saxons. 



The Eev. D. C Whitley pleaded for a recognition of men 

 belonging to the older or Palaeolithic age in Cornwall. He 

 pointed out that traces of men of that period had been found in a 

 cave at Cattedown, Plymouth. The bones of men and animals, 

 there discovered, shewed, he said, that Palseolithic men lived 

 and died in South Devon ; therefore it might be concluded that 

 human inhabitants of the same date dwelt in the adjacent region 

 of Cornwall. 



