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Title: The Ethnology of the British Islands

Author: Robert Gordon Latham

Release Date: January 11, 2010 [EBook #30931]

Language: English

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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.

CONTENTS.

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.