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wild reference to " an island over against Celtica ( Gaul ) , not less in size than Sicily , lying under the Polar ... Gaulish and British houses . How far does this agree with Stonehenge ? It is useless to build or prop any theory on ...
wild reference to " an island over against Celtica ( Gaul ) , not less in size than Sicily , lying under the Polar ... Gaulish and British houses . How far does this agree with Stonehenge ? It is useless to build or prop any theory on ...
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... repute - men like Colonel Forbes - Leslie , who have done really admirable work . The Druids were the priests of the Celts in Gaul and Britain . They formed , if Cæsar 66 may be trusted , a very powerful caste , The Druid Circles . 37.
... repute - men like Colonel Forbes - Leslie , who have done really admirable work . The Druids were the priests of the Celts in Gaul and Britain . They formed , if Cæsar 66 may be trusted , a very powerful caste , The Druid Circles . 37.
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... Gaulish towns , and so would the temples be in rural districts and in Britain , which was in a more primitive state than Gaul in respect to towns . The Druidic argument may be put in this form- We are not told what kind of temples the ...
... Gaulish towns , and so would the temples be in rural districts and in Britain , which was in a more primitive state than Gaul in respect to towns . The Druidic argument may be put in this form- We are not told what kind of temples the ...
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... Gaul they built towns of the Roman type , with stone houses , temples , and such like ; but rural Gaul and Britain con- tented themselves with wooden houses and wooden fortifications- stockaded clearings or strong hill positions . They ...
... Gaul they built towns of the Roman type , with stone houses , temples , and such like ; but rural Gaul and Britain con- tented themselves with wooden houses and wooden fortifications- stockaded clearings or strong hill positions . They ...
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... Gaul . Homer represents Achilles as placing the fat of many sheep and oxen , whose carcases were heaped round the pyre , about the body of Patroclus , from head to foot . He set vessels with honey and oil slanting towards the bier , and ...
... Gaul . Homer represents Achilles as placing the fat of many sheep and oxen , whose carcases were heaped round the pyre , about the body of Patroclus , from head to foot . He set vessels with honey and oil slanting towards the bier , and ...
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acus agus Alex Alexander Applause Ardnamurchan Ballifeary bard beag bheil bhiodh bho'n Bidh birds Bishop Book of Deer cairn Cameron Campbell Celtic Celts century Cha'n chaidh chambered cairns Cheers chief Chisholm chuir chur Church Columcille crofters Cuchulinn Deer dhuinn districts ditto do'n dolmens Drostan Druids duine Duncan eagle Fionn Fraser gach Gael Gaelic names Gaelic Society Gairloch Gauls Glenmoriston Grant gu'm gu'n hear Highlands honour Inverness Inverness-shire Ireland Irish John King Kintail land language literature Lochiel Lord Macdonald Mackay Mackenzie Mackintosh Macrae manrent meeting minister Mormaer mound mu'n Munro Nuair O.Ir parish Picts poetry Presbytery present race ring cairn robh Roman Ross Scotland sibh sinn Sir Robert song stone circles theid toast uair Welsh worship
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