Ancient and Modern Britons

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Whoever has gone into one of our Antiquarian Museums, and glanced with some curiosity, and perhaps with growing interest, at the withered fragments of canoes, preserved from total decay by the peat out of which they were dug,—at the stone heads of weapons whose handles have rotted long ago,—at the flint knives and arrow-heads,—at the sun-dried pottery,—at the gaudy beads of amber or of bone,—and at all such other relics off a remote past,—has soon, in all likelihood, found himself speculating upon the nature of the people who made and used these things.