CHAPTER I. PAGE Preliminary Remarks.--Present Populations of the British Isles.-- Romans, &c.--Pre-historic Period.--The Irish Elk.--How far Contemporaneous with Man.--Stone Period.--Modes of Sepulture.-- The Physical Condition of the Soil.--Its Fauna.--Skulls of the Stone Period.--The Bronze Period.--Gold Ornaments.--Alloys and Castings.--How far Native or Foreign.--Effect of the Introduction of Metals.--Dwellings. 1 Authorities for the Earliest Historical Period.--Herodotus.-- Aristotle.--Polybius.--Onomacritus.--Diodorus Siculus.--Strabo.-- Festus Avienus.--Ultimate sources.--Damnonii.--Ph[oe]nician Trade.--The Orgies.--South-Eastern Britons of Cæsar.--The Details of his Attacks.--The Ca…
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