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THE “BRITISH CELTS” WERE PICTS — 139

Anthropologists from their exact measurements of the people in Britain, tell us that “the darkest population forms the nucleus of each of the Celtic Language areas which now remain.” + And this dark “ Celtic-’’ speaking element is especially found in “the Grampian Hills in Scotland, the wild and mountainous Wales (and Cornwall) and the hills of Connemara and Kerry and Western Ireland.’"? And their average stature is relatively short, culminating in Britain, in South Wales, the Severn Valley and Cornwall. It will thus be noticed that this “‘ Celtic’ area corresponds generally in Scotland with the area in which the later “‘ Picts ”’ suddenly disappeared, and in whose place have suddenly appeared the people called ‘Celts.’ In Ireland also the “Celtic’’ area generally corresponds with that part of the country specially associated with the Bans, Vans or Early Feins, who, we have found, were Picts. Cornwall, with its old tin-port of Ictis (or Victis ?), was a chief “ Celtic’’ centre on the old “Sea of Icht (or of the Picts.) + And the Picts appear to have called themselves ‘‘ Khaldis”’ or ‘‘ Khaltis.”’

This new line of evidence leads us to the conclusion that the early “ Celts” or “ Kelts”’ were presumably the early Picts calling themselves “ Khaldis"’ or ‘‘ Khaltis,’ a primitive people who, I find from a mass of evidence, were the early “ Chaldees "’ or Galat(i) and “ Gal(li) ’’ of Van and Eastern Asia Minor and Mesopotamia in the Stone Age.® Their western hordes would seem to have retained their title of “ Khaltis "’ or “‘ Galati’’ or ‘‘ Gal,’ when in the Old Stone Age they penetrated westward into Gaul on the Atlantic and formed there the primitive Kelts or Celta of Gaul and of Pictavia on the border of Iberia, and the Gauls and Gaul are actually called “‘ Galate’’ and “Galat’’ by Strabo. And at a later period when the round-headed Sarmatian Alpines invaded Gaul from the Rhine and Switzerland and drove out the Picts, they seem to have retained the old aboriginal name for that land and its people: —“ Gaul"’ and

RAE, 322. 21b., 319. *On this “ Jcht”’ as “‘ Pict,” see later. * Details in Aryan Origins.

¢S. 1, 3, 21, etc. ; iv, 2, x, etc.

*1b., 327-9 and map.