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CHAPTER II.

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 Caesar.--The Details
of his Attacks.--The Caledonians of Galgacus. 38

CHAPTER III.

Origin of the Britons.--Kelts of Gaul.--The Belgae.--Whether
Keltic or German.--Evidence of Caesar.--Attrebates, Belgae, Remi,
Durotriges and Morini, Chauci and Menapii. 58

CHAPTER IV.

The Picts.--List of Kings.--Penn Fahel.--Aber and Inver.--The
Picts probably, but not certainly, Britons. 76

CHAPTER V.

Origin of the Gaels.--Difficulties of its Investigation.--Not
Elucidated by any Records, nor yet by Traditions.--Arguments from
the Difference between the British and Gaelic Languages.--The
British Language spoken in Gaul.--The Gaelic not known to be
spoken in any part of the Continent.--Lhuyd's Doctrine.--The
Hibernian Hypothesis.--The Caledonian Hypothesis.--Postulates. 83

CHAPTER VI.

Roman Influences.--Agricola.--The Walls and Ramparts of Adrian,
Antoninus, and Severus.--Bonosus.--Carausius.--The Constantian
Family.--Franks and Alemanni in Britain.--Foreign Elements in the
Roman Legions. 90

CHAPTER VII.

Value of the Early British Records.--True and Genuine Traditions
Rare.--Gildas.--Beda.--Nennius.--Annales Cambrenses.--Difference
between Chronicles and Registers.--Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.--Irish
Annals.--Value of the Accounts of the Fifth and Sixth
Centuries.--Questions to which they apply. 104

CHAPTER VIII.

The Angles of Germany: their comparative obscurity.--Notice of
Tacitus.--Extract from Ptolemy.--Conditions of the Angle Area.--
The Varini.--The Reudigni and other Populations of Tacitus.--The
Sabalingii, &c., of Ptolemy.--The Suevi Angili.--Engle and
Ongle.--Original Angle Area. 142

CHAPTER IX.

The Saxons--of Upper Saxony--of Lower, or Old Saxony.--
Nordal