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“ Sacred to thee, a beauteous grove was seen 
So thick, an arrow could not pass between, 
By the Pelasgi planted round thy shrine, 
There the elm rear’d her stately head — and pine 
Coniferous. There the pear and apple grew, 
Sweet to the taste and tempting to the view.” 
I think that I need say no more to prove that circular temples, open to 
the sky, were devoted to the same worship among the Thracians and the 
Britons. The mysteries of Demeter were common to both. The analogy of 
language is, perhaps, greater than usually suspected, and at all events very 
marked in connection with the oak-religion, and consequently with the 
Druids. The Welsh traditions trace the migration of the Cymry from 
exactly the same region — Gwlad yr Haf, the land of Summer, interpreted 
to mean where Constantinople now stands, but also called Taprobane, i.«., 
apparently the valley ( dyffryn ) of Albania. If this tradition be correct, it 
necessarily leads us back to as ancient a date for this movement of the 
Welsh as for that of the old Etruscans and other colonists of Italy. 
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