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period extending from a limit which we have no means of 
fixing down, perhaps, to the time of the Anglo-Saxon 
invasion, or even it may be to a rather later period ; though 
I should be inclined to ascribe the great mass of them to a date 
not later than the period of the Roman occupation. Thus 
from these few flints, gathered in the fields, we are enabled 
to add some important knowledge to the bare testimony 
of the ancient geographer ; and we may now venture to state 
that the Parisi were a small tribe inhabiting the district round 
the bay of Bridlington, separated by the natural features of 
the country from the inland districts, living peaceably and 
very rudely on the produce of fishing and the chase, who 
were little, if at all, acquainted with the use of metals, or of 
any of the improvements of civilization ; and, probably, they 
were few- in number. We have as yet, no facts to enable 
us to say whether they were a fragment of an early Celtic 
population remaining in primitive ignorance, while their 
brethren in the interior advanced towards refinement; or 
whether they were some rude fisher tribe whom boats and 
the accidents of the sea had brought from Scandinavia, or 
from the opposite shores of the continent of Europe, to 
settle on this distant coast. Further observation may show 
whether remains, with very similar characteristics, are found 
on the coasts of northern Europe, and whether we find 
remains indicating a similar population, under similar 
circumstances, in other parts of the coast of our own 
island. I would merely observe, that it is a fact which 
must not be overlooked, that the tribe of the Parisi, though 
small, must have possessed some peculiarity distinctive from 
the tribes around, to entitle it to separate mention in the 
geography of Ptolemy. 
This particular subject, or rather this particular case of 
an important subject, leads us naturally to consider that 
