2 88 FOOTPRINTS OF VANISHED RACES IN CORNWALL. 



dark hair.^^'' Remnants also of a short, dark-liaired and swarthy 

 people may even now be found in the Highlands of Western 

 Scotland."^ 



This short dark race has been called Iberian, and the term 

 has secured general acceptance. Professor Rhys, however, ^^^ 

 proposes to call the race Ivernian, as by this name the non-Celtic 

 inhabitants of Ireland were known, and he gives good reasons 

 for supposing that the same name was applied to these non-Celtic 

 people in England and Scotland. I shall, therefore, follow him, 

 and call these people Ivernians, but the term is the exact equiva- 

 lent of Iberians. This race was widely distributed. In Ireland 

 its members were called by the Celts by the name of Fir Bolg, 

 that is — " Men of the Bag," Mr. McLean has shown"^ that in 

 Scotland, Islay was once in the possession of the Fir Bolgs, 

 who have been identified by Mr. Skene, ^"^ with the Dumnonii 

 of England and Scotland, and also with the Silures, who were the 

 well known representatives of the Ivernian race. 



Whence came this Ivernian race ? It is most probable from 

 the east. It is true that M. Broca brings them into Europe fi-om 

 the south by way of Africa. It is, however, more likely that 

 they came from Central or Northern Asia, as the carvings on the 

 rocks in Scotland^^^ represent serpents and perhaps tigers, whilst 

 the Mongolian superstitions associated with the race support this 

 conclusion. Mr. W. C. Borlase,^^^ thinks that the Iberian race on 

 reaching western Europe divided in two parts, one of which going 

 northwards entered Britain, whilst the other spread to the south, 

 and peopled France and Spain, a remnant still existing in the 

 Basques. Professor W. Boyd Dawkins also considers^^^ that the 



ii6. Elton's Origins of English History, p. 140 [note]. 



117. See a most valuable paper by Mr. Hector Mc Lean in the Journal of the 

 Anthropological liutUvte, vol. vii, 1878. Mr, W. C. liorlase also draws attention to the 

 distribution of this ancient dark race in Scotland and Ireland in his Dolmens tf 

 Ireland, vol. iii, pp. 1029 - 1034. 



118. Celtic Britain, pp. 262, 263. 



iig. Journal of the Anthropological Institute, \o\. vii, 1878. 



120. Celtic Scotland. voX.i. 



i2t. Report of the Norzvich Congress of Archaeology , 1868, pp. 34, 35. 



122. The Dolmens of Ireland. vo\. ii, p 610. Mr. Borlase also describes the spread 

 of this race in his Age of the Snints, pp. xiv, xv. 



123. Early Men in Britain, p. 323. The Ligures are also considered by Pro- 

 fessor Dawkins, to belong to the same Iberian race. 



