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I have just referred to — the long and the round head ; and 
some who, judging from the features of the skull, had been 
descendants of a mixture of the two races. Now this is just 
what we might expect, for many of the earlier and conquered 
people would continue to live under the new state of things, 
and would intermarry, in time, with the intruders. But 
there were indications which seem to shew that the long- 
headed race was the earlier, and though conquered, perhaps 
the most numerous for some time after that conquest ; for I 
found in five barrows that the original interments had been 
disturbed to put .others in their place, and in three of these 
instances, whilst the secondary burial was of a round-headed 
person, the primary and disturbed burials were of the long- 
headed race. 
Before I proceed further, I wish to state that the facts I 
am going to bring before you are deduced entirely from the 
observation of myself and others upon remains that have been 
seen and handled. I put aside all historic facts, i.e. those of 
written history, not because I think them altogether without 
value, but because I wish to bring these people before you as 
we know them from their weapons, implements, ornaments, 
habitations, and burial-places, rather than as we have been 
accustomed to regard them in our histories — at one time as 
unclothed and painted savages ; or at another time as philo- 
sophic sages, handing down a recondite and mystical know- 
ledge to crowds of appreciating disciples ; or cutting, with 
golden sickles, the sacred mistletoe beneath the mysterious 
oak. Under the false light of history — I do not deny a true 
one — the simple burial circles of the olden race have, with 
clouds of witnesses, and long arrays of quotations by learned 
writers (learning, how much abused !) been erected into 
Ophite and Dracontian temples, and fanes of the Hclio- 
Arhlte cult. Even within a few months we have seen a 
work, called "Our British Forefathers, who were they?" 
