reat numbers in Cumberland and Cornwall; the Jutes--a variety of
Dane--peopled Kent entirely. Nor must we forget the Romans, who left a
deep impress upon us, especially amongst Welsh families. 'Tis not easy
for any of our mixed race to say, I am this, or that. Why, if most of
us spoke the truth (supposing we might know it), we should say, `I am
one-quarter Saxon, one-eighth British, one-sixteenth Iberian, one-eighth
Danish, one-sixteenth Flemish, one-thirty-secondth part Roman,'--and so
forth. Now, Miss Caroline, how much of that can you remember?"

"All of it, I hope, Sir," said I; "I shall try to do so. I like to hear
of those old times. But would you please to tell me, what is an
Iberian?"

"My dear," said Mr Cameron, smiling, "I would gladly give you fifty
pounds in gold, if you could tell me."

"Sir!" cried I, in great surprise.

He went on, more as if he were talking to himself, or to some very
learned man, than to me.

"What is an Iberian? Ah, for the man who could tell us! What is a
Basque?--what is an Etruscan?--what is a Magyar?--above all, what is a
Cagot? Miss Caroline, my dear, there are deep questions in all arts and
sciences; and, without knowing it, you have lighted on one of the
deepest and most interesting. The most learned man that breathes can
only answer you, as I do now (though I am far from being a learned
man)--I do not know. I will, nevertheless, willingly tell you what
little I do know; and the rather if you take an interest in such
matters. All that we really know of the Iberii is that they came from
Spain, and that they had reached that country from the East; that they
were a narrow-headed people (the Celts or later Britons were
round-headed); that they dwelt in rude houses in the interior of the
country, first digging a pit in the ground, and building over it a kind
of hut, sometimes of turf and sometimes of stone; that they wore very
rude clothing, and were generally much less civilised than the Celts,
who lived mainly on the coast; that they loved to dwell, and especially
to worship, on a mountain top; that they followed certain Eastern
observances, such as running or leaping through the fire to Bel,--which
savours of a Phoenician or Assyrian origin; and that it is more than
likely that we owe to them those stupendous monuments yet standing--
Stonehenge, Avebury, the White Horse of Berkshire, and the White Man of
Wilmington."

"But what sort of a religion had they, if yo