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ANCIENT BRITISH PERIOD.

Fig. a, arrow-head of flint, in the Meyrick collection; b, another, engraved in Archæologia, vol. xv. pi. 2; c, d, lance-heads of bone, from a barrow on Upton Lovel Downs, "Wiltshire, engraved in same plate; e, spear-head of stone, in the Meyrick collection; f, battle-axe head of black stone, in ditto; g, another, found in a barrow in Devonshire, and now in the same collection.

Respecting the original colonists of Britain—the more adventurous members of the two great nomadic tribes, the Cimmerii or Cimbrians and the Celtæ or Celts, who wandered from the shores of the Thracian Bosphorus to the northern coasts of Europe, and passed, some from Gaul across the channel, others through "the Hazy" or German Ocean to these