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Excerpt from Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, and the Sepulchral Usages of Its Inhabitants: From the Most Remote Ages to the Reformation
This seems very plausible, until we compare the state of society which would admit of the use of such rude weapons as are found in the earlier tumuli, with the comparatively high degree of civilization which would enable the founders of the Celtic nation to cross the Channel from the nearest point of the Gaulish coast into Britain; consequently, if this be cor rect, we must either build a bridge for them, by supposing that the continent was continuous, so that Britain was not then separated by the channel, or we must look to a more civilized people for the colonization of this country than the contents of the ancient barrows prove to have existed.
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