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under which the table of the Briton groaned. Besides the 
animals mentioned, several others, now extinct in our county, 
were then living in it. It is probable that the Irish elk was still 
in existence, though no doubt very scarce; but the red and the 
roe- deer were plentiful, and a larger species of ox, the primi- 
genius, was also abundant. Goats formed a part of the food of 
these people, though we do not find so many of their remains 
as of those of the red-deer and the wild boar. The wolf was 
common, as indeed it was down to the thirteenth century of 
our era, and the beaver has occurred in peat mosses, with bones 
of the deer and the ox. It is not so easy to say what animals 
had been domesticated ; the horse and dog certainly had been, 
for the horse and his rider have been found buried side by 
side, as also has the dog, to bear his master company in 
happier hunting fields. We find in connection with the 
fortified places large enclosures, which seem to be for cattle, and 
it is almost certain that at least the ox had been domesticated. 
Whatever the earlier long-headed and stone-using race may 
have done, I do not think our friends the round-headed Britons 
indulged in cannibal feasts. Ancient writers, you know, 
and those too of repute, tell us that they had these unpleasant 
habits ; but then I have not implicit faith in ancient writers, 
and I only believe them when facts substantiate their state- 
ments. At all events, I have never seen anything connected 
with their burials, and that is the place to look for evidences 
of such feasts, which gives any sanction to the idea. Mr. 
Laing has lately roused the indignation of Caithness by 
throwing out a hint that a broken child's jaw he found in a 
kitchen-midden there, was the relic of a cannibal banquet ; 
but I think he is wrong in that conclusion, as he seems to be 
in many of his ideas connected with the people whose burial- 
places and other remains he has examined. 
They were not great builders. We possess a few large 
megalithic structures, which have been attributed — and, I 
