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140 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

“Khaltis,”’ “ Kelt”” or “ Celt.” Yet, although in Britain the name “ Kelt ’’ or ““ Celt ’’ does not appear in the fragmentary surviving history of Ancient Britain under that exact spelling, it, nevertheless, is represented in its dialectic variant of “Caled” in “ Caled-on”; and in “ Culdees,” the title of the Pictish mission of Columba. It may possibly survive also in “‘ Gadhel,’’ the common Gaelic spelling of “Gael,” by transposition of the letters in spelling—a recognized dialectic change called paronomasia—of an earlier “‘Galdhi,” representing “ Khaldi” or“ Kaldi.”’ And its shortened form “ Gal” possibly survives in “ Gael,’”’ and in “‘Gwalia’’ for Wales. So, after all, perhaps the British “ Celts’’ are more entitled to use the “Celt”’ title than the round-headed “‘Celts’’ of Gaul, who, according to classic historians and anthropologists, are the only true ‘“ Celts.”

This identity of the ancestors of the ‘ British Celts’ or “Kelts ’ with the “ Khaldis” or ‘‘ Caleds”’ or Picts is in keeping with the physical traits and head-form of the latter. The people of the “Celtic-’’ speaking areas are preponderatingly of the dark, long, narrow-headed, narrow-faced, smaller-statured Iberian type of the Khaldis or Picts; and this is also the prevailing type of the substratum of the people throughout the British Isles.+

The modern “ British Celts,’ however, as well as the bulk of their kindred still forming the main substratum in the population of the British Isles generally, have become a somewhat heterogeneous race, through more or less intermixture with the other two races of later invaders and civilizers. Thus their original dark aboriginal Pictish or

’ Thus Dr. Beddoe describes the ‘' Celtic area’ race in Scotland: *‘ The head and face are long, and rather narrow, the skull base rather narrow, the brow and occiput prominent.” Hair mostly “ dark brown ”’ to “* brownish black ’’ and even “ coal-black’’ (B.R.B., 245). Hector Maclean records, ‘the head is high, long and often narrow, the face frequently long... . the lips are usually full, often thick, and more or less projecting ” (4.2 iv, 129). Ripley, on the commonest type in the British Isles generally, says: ‘‘ The prevailing type is that of a long, narrow cranium, accompanied by an oval, rather than a broad or round, face ” (R.R.E., 303). And Wilson, on the British “ Celts,’ notes “ the remarkable narvowness of forehead which characterizes the Celtic Race [in the British Isles]. (If.P.4., 181). And he also says: ‘ We begin to discover that ihe Northern and

Southern Picts were no other than the aboriginal Celte”” (1b. 15); although he confounds the issues by supposing that the dark Picts were Aryans.