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either placed in a small heap, sometimes ‘‘ covered with a small 
slab of stone, or wrapped in cloth or skin (the bronze pin which 
fastened the napkin being occasionally found), or enclosed in cin- 
erary urns, inverted or otherwise. In some instances, even when 
placed in urns, they were first enclosed in a cloth.” In regard to 
the disputed point as to the form of the barrows, ‘‘long barrow,” 
“round barrow,” etc., which some authors have considered as 
indicating a difference of race in the occupants, and have even 
gone so far as to give as a rule, “long barrows, long heads, and 
round barrows, round heads,” our author’s observations lead him 
to the following conclusions :— 
« An examination of a very large number of barrows leads me 
m ss SERERE that the original form of all was circular, and that 
iation from that form and no difference in section, can 
k ken as indicative of period or of race.’ 
In the third chapter, in giving an account of the places where the 
burning of bodies has taken place, he says that :— 
“« Wherever the burning has taken place, there is evidence of an 
immense amount of heat being used; the soil, for some distance 
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most like brick. Remains of charcoal, the refuse of the funeral 
pyre, are very abundant, and in some instances I have found the 
lead ore, which occurs in Son in the limestone formation of Der- 
byshire, so completely smelted with the heat that it has run into 
the crevices among the soil and-loose stones. .... .- Is it too 
much to s Suppo se that the discovery of lead may be traced to the 
funeral pyre of our early forefathers? I think it not improbable 
that the fact of seeing the liquid metal run from the fire as the ore 
which lay about becamé accidentally smelted, would give the peo- 
ple their first insight into the art of making lea ad.” 
The several facts that have been brought forward to prove that 
the earliest races of men were, if not habitually, occasionally can- 
nibals, have, perhaps, not been so very conclusive as to secure 
general belief, but the testimony that the early races indulged to 
a very extensive degree in the equally degrading custom of human 
sacrifice has accumulated to such an extent, that it can now hardly 
be doubted that all races which have risen to a state as high, even, 
as “semicivilized,” have passed through the stage of human sacri- 
fice. That the ancient Britons were no better than the ancient 
Americans in this respect is suggested by the following sentence 
from Mr. Jewitt’s work :— 
