bingians.--Saxons of Ptolemy.--Present and Ancient
Populations of Sleswick-Holstein.--North-Frisians.--Probable
Origin of the name Saxon.--The Littus Saxonicum.--Saxones
Bajocassini. 165

CHAPTER X.

The Angles of Germany--Imperfect Reconstruction of their
History--Their Heroic Age.--Beowulf.--Conquest of Anglen.--
Anecdote from Procopius.--Their Reduction under the Carlovingian
Dynasty.--The Angles of Thuringia. 200

CHAPTER XI.

Recapitulations and Illustrations.--Propositions respecting the
Keltic Character of the Original Occupants of Britain, &c.--The
Relations between the Ancient Britons and the Ancient Gauls,
&c.--The Scotch Gaels.--The Picts.--The Date of the Germanic
Invasions.--The names Angle and Saxon. 219

CHAPTER XII.

Analysis of the Germanic Populations of England.--The Jute
Element Questionable.--Frisian Elements Probable.--Other German
Elements, how far Probable.--Forms in -ing. 232

CHAPTER XIII.

The Scandinavians.--Forms in -by: their Import and
Distribution.--Danes of Lincolnshire, &c.; of East Anglia; of
Scotland; of the Isle of Man; of Lancashire and Cheshire; of
Pembrokeshire.--Norwegians of Northumberland, Scotland, and
Ireland, and Isle of Man.--Frisian forms in Yorkshire.--Bogy.--
Old Scratch.--The Picts possibly Scandinavian.--The Normans. 244

ETHNOLOGY
OF
THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.--PRESENT POPULATIONS OF THE BRITISH
ISLES.--ROMANS, ETC.--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.

The ethnologist, who passes from the history of the varieties of the
human species of the world at large, to the details of some special
family, tribe, or nation, is in the position of the naturalist who rises
from such a work as the _Systema Naturae_, or the _Regne Animal_, to
concentrate his attention on some special section or subsection of the
s