holmes: PRE-HISTORIC REMAIJJS of ItOMBALDS MOOR. 315 
ever upon the indestructible rocks in elaborate and painfully cut 
lines, circles and figures for record. We can trace how they began to 
clear the soil, stones and weeds, and sow rye, oats and barley, and 
grinding grain by hand process ; then increasing their flocks, tending 
them on the hills, and sheltering them in folds and hollows ; they 
would gradually but slowly rise into domestic comforts. We can see 
how they dressed the hides of their cattle, and formed them for 
garments, and so evolved slowly and painfully from primitive 
barbarism to the semi-civilised condition that the Romans found 
them in. The valleys were then lakes or dangerous morasses, and the 
hill sides were covered-by dense forests. The tops of the hills held 
wood huts and villages, such as the New Zealanders still stock- 
ade. They became rich in cattle, had solid canoe boats or wicker 
corracles. Latterly they had framed wooden carts, and in some places 
chiefs had the use of chariots; they had acquired the use of metal 
tools of copper, bronze, gold and even iron. In some instances they 
traded with foreign countries, and copied the mediums of barter in 
metal and money. Foreign Missions had visited barbarian Britain, 
had advanced savage superstition to semi-civilised Druidism with 
divination, rude morals, and crude social organisation. It is common 
to stop at these patent inferences from these ascertained facts. But 
the intelligent antiquary may be permitted to look to the future as 
well as the past, and to conclude that as progress marks the past, 
it prefigures the future, or to "indefinite progress for the race 
— to state of being yet without a name." 
