The Celtic druids / By Godfrey Higgins.

  • Higgins, Godfrey, 1773-1833.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The Celtic druids / By Godfrey Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. SECT. PAGE 1 Derivation of the word Britain • 88 a Digression respecting the Hero Gods • 89 3 Derivation of the word Britain continued • 90 4 Whitaker’s Derivation of the word Britain • 91 5 Derivation of Bretagne in Gaul . 92 6 Derivation of the word Albion . 94 7 Derivation of the word Druid . ih. 8 Derivation of the words Vates and Bards • • 95 9 Britain how peopled • . • 97 10 Mr. Davies’s Opinion of the First Settlers • 99 11 A Passage from a Poem of Taliessin’s . • 100 12 Population of Britain at the Roman Invasion 101 13 Britain known to Aristotle • 102 14 Britain first discovered by Pytheas of Marseilles 103 15 Phoenician Trade to Britain • • ih. 16 The Old Greeks knew more of Britain than their Successors 104 17 Geographical Ignorance of Strabo and the Greeks of his Time 105 18 Ireland known to the Early Greeks • • • 106 19 Road to Britain lost, like that to America and Australia • 107 20 Surprising Ignorance of the Greeks . . . ih. 21 The Magnetic Needle • * 110 22 Telescopes known to the Druids • . 114 23 Gunpowder .... • • ' 115 CHAPTER IV. 1 The Hyperboreans were Britons 117 2 Two Nations of Hyperboreans . 119 3 The Ancient Oracles founded by Celtse • 120 4 Abaris .... • 123 5 Abaris probably a Native of Ireland • 124 6 Druids probably Pythagoreans . 125 7 The Cross common to Greeks, Egyptians, and Indians 126 8 Monograms of Christ • 128 9 Extract from Vallencey • ih. 10 The Druids adored the Cross , . 130 11 The Old not more than the New Testament miraculously protected from Error 132