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may be cited for the proposition that the typical dolicho¬ 
cephalic Scandinavian is not to be distinguished from the 
typical dolicho-cephalic Celtic skull,” and mentions Retzius, 
Sir William Wilde, Nilsson, Omalius d’Halloy, Virchow, and 
Schaafhausen as holding this view, though he himself appears 
to think they differ in certain minor details. 8 He also quotes 
from Broca 9 to the effect that certain districts of modern 
Brittany, in which refugees from Britain in the 5th century 
are said to have settled in great numbers, are now dis¬ 
tinguished by the tallness, light complexion, and dolicho- 
cephaly of their inhabitants. 
Both branches of the Celtic family, the Briton (Brython) 
and the Gael (Goidel), are represented in the British Isles. 
The Gael appear to have been the earlier comers, both from the 
position of the Gaelic-speaking people at the present day, and 
from traces of their former existence where the language of 
the other branch of Celts is now spoken. On the Continent 
Gaelic is unknown, while a tongue akin to Welsh is still that 
of a million and a half of Frenchmen hi Brittany. Like 
almost all the invaders of Britain, there can be no doubt that 
both Gael and Briton first landed in the south-east, and 
thence spread towards the west and north. The Gaelic 
colonists are consequently found still speaking their language 
in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, while the language 
of the Britons prevails in Wales, and existed, little more 
than a century ago, in Cornwall. Mr. Isaac Taylor remarks 
that the greater number of Celtic names in England are of 
Brythonic type, but notices the existence of a thin stream of 
Goidelic names from the Thames to the Mersey, “as if to 
indicate the route by which the Gaels passed across to Ireland, 
impelled probably by the succeeding hosts of Cymric in¬ 
vaders.” 10 On the other hand, there appears to be little 
evidence, judging from place-names, that any considerable 
number of Brytlions crossed over to Ireland, though Brigantes 
settled in what is now Wexford. But they predominated in 
Britain south of the Forth and Clyde, and settled more or 
8 ‘British Barrows,’ p. 646. 9 ‘British Barrows,’ p. 636. 
10 ‘Words and Places.’ 
