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Excerpt from Essays Ethnological and Linguistic Opposed to generally received opinions is the theory that the Aquitani and the Iberi were the same people, and are now represented by the Gael.. Dr. Vaughan in his Revolution of English History expresses views similar to those maintained in the Essay on the civilization of the ancient Britons. He denies that the custom of painting the body is necessarily a proof of bar barism. He asserts that the existence of war chariots shows that there must have been good smiths, carpenters and wheel wrights; while the harness required for the horses, and the personal ornaments worn by the people in general, evince the constant exercise of trades incompatible with barbarism. Caesar describes the buildings in Britain as similar to those of Gaul, and Gaul we know contained cities of considerable strength and beauty: this was a subject in regard to which Caesar could have been under no misapprehension, though he might easily have been misinformed with respect to de tails of domestic customs: and in describing the effect of the Roman and Saxon conquests, Dr. Vaughan considers that the language of the Britons has had much more inuence on the English language than is generally supposed. This circumstance is pointed out at length with numerous instances in support of it, in the late Mr. Carnett's Essay on the Languages and Dialects of the British Islands included in the collection of his Essays which forms one of the volumes of this series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, howev