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in which the author, who appears to have read every book 
under the sun, and to whom everything printed seems to 
appear equally true, has produced such a farrago of nonsense 
as I thought could never have been written by a man who 
has been blessed by being allowed to see a barrow opened. 
Very different is Sir John Lubbock's " Pre-historic Times," 
where true learning has produced a most valuable and trust- 
worthy book. 
The ancient Briton — I can find no better name for him — 
that is, the man whose race, in the main, occupied this 
country when Caosar landed, belonged to no mean section of 
the human family. He was of good stature ; his skeleton 
shews him to have been of an average height of from 5 ft. 
7 in. to 5 ft. 9 in. Of powerful and symmetrical frame, and 
though of course subject to disease (I have seen the skeleton 
of a strong-made man whose joints shewed that he had been 
a martyr to rheumatism), many appear to have reached the 
period of advanced life in sixty and seventy years. It is not 
an easy thing, even in imagination, to clothe again the dry 
bones with flesh, and to restore to the tenants of the tomb the 
manly grace, or the still lovelier form, which once adorned 
them. We may, however, form some idea, imperfect though 
it may be, of the personal appearance the Britons presented. 
The lines of the face must have been, on the whole, harsh and 
severe, for all the prominent features are strongly developed, 
and wanting in that softness of outline which adds so much 
to beauty of form. The mouth was slightly projecting, 
the cheek bones high, the eyebrows rugged and very project- 
ing; the nose, on the whole, prominent and well marked. 
The forehead erect, a little low, but broad, and in no way 
wanting in capacity. The hinder part of the head remark- 
ably broad. "We cannot, judging from numerous remains of 
the skull, attribute much beauty to the face of the Briton, 
and he must have presented, at the best, a fierce and savage 
