Transcriber's Note:
Archaic, dialect and variant spellings (including quoted propernouns) remain as printed, except where noted. Minor typographicalerrors have been corrected without note; significant amendments havebeen listed at the end of the text.
Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος.
THE
ETHNOLOGY
OF
THE BRITISH ISLANDS.
THE
ETHNOLOGY
OF
THE BRITISH ISLANDS.
BY
R. G. LATHAM, M.D., F.R.S.,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER TO THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK, ETC.
Device
LONDON:
JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLII.
LONDON:
Printed by T. E. Metcalf, 63, Snow Hill.
[v]
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary Remarks.—Present Populations of the BritishIsles.—Romans, &c.—Pre-historic Period.—The Irish Elk.—How farContemporaneous with Man.—Stone Period.—Modes of Sepulture.—ThePhysical Condition of the Soil.—Its Fauna.—Skulls of theStone Period.—The Bronze Period.—Gold Ornaments.—Alloys andCastings.—How far Native or Foreign.—Effect of the Introductionof Metals.—Dwellings.1
CHAPTER II.
Authorities for the Earliest HistoricalPeriod.—Herodotus.—Aristotle.—Polybius.—Onomacritus.—DiodorusSiculus.—Strabo.—Festus Avienus.—Ultimate sources.—Damnonii.—PhœnicianTrade.—The Orgies.—South-Eastern Britons of Cæsar.—The Detailsof his Attacks.—The Caledonians of Galgacus.38
CHAPTER III.
Origin of the Britons.—Kelts of Gaul.—The Belgæ.—WhetherKeltic or German.—Evidence of Cæsar.—Attrebates, Belgæ, Remi,Durotriges and Morini, Chauci and Menapii.58
CHAPTER IV.[vi]
The Picts.—List of Kings.—Penn Fahel.—Aber and Inver.—ThePicts probably, but not certainly, Britons.76
CHAPTER V.
Origin of the Gaels.—Difficulties of its Investigation.—NotElucidated by any Records, nor yet by Traditions.—Arguments fromthe Difference between the British and Gaelic Languages.—TheBritish Language spoken in Gaul.—The Gaelic not known to bespoken in any part of the Continent.—Lhuyd's Doctrine.—TheHibernian Hypothesis.—The Caledonian Hypothesis.—Postulates.83
CHAPTER VI.
Roman Influences.—Agricola.—The Walls and Ramparts of Adrian,Antoninus, and                         
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