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BRITAIN was for centuries regarded with curiosity and awe by the ancients; in their ignorance of geography they related many strange and horrible things of it, which were only contradicted fifty years B.C. when Julius Cæsar invaded the country. That great general, who began the conquest of the island. (which was completed A.D. 84 by Agricola), told his countrymen that the inhabitants of the British. Isles belonged to that race which we know by the name of "Celts," whose fate it was to be driven to the West of Europe by the Germanic tribes. We have to imagine the culture of the British Celts. similar to that of the Gauls as Cæsar describes it in his "Commentaries." Between these two tribes of the same nation Druidism was the connecting link. The language of the Britons was a Celtic dialect, analogous with those still spoken in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in Ireland, in the
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