ANCIENT VERULAM.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 13

ANCIENT VERULAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF TBS PRBSS. Sil-,—The Bo v. C. A. Tobin objects to ancient Yerulam being called an Englir'. ' He sn"~ the English were living in the dark woods and swamps x>£ Northern Germany. of these statements are incorrect. Being a half-Oelt myself, a 1 so an Englishman, I do not agree with him that I am a Saxon, and with your kind permission I will show that I am not, neither is any of the English race. The first race - known to have been in tain was the Aryan people, or Celts, and Therian people m some parts. Be fore any bronze could be made, tin

to be obtained from Cornwall also copper and zinc. The copper and zinc were most likely obtained from the district of Huelva, in the Province of Tartersilß, the present Andalusia. Thi» would bring other peoples into Britain. Then we have the people of Troy coming into Britain. The Phoenicians, also Israelites, and Copts from Egypt, also many other races, down to the time of the Roman invasion. The Roman Empire, being composed of a multitude of races, naturally many races formed the invaders during their occupation of Britain. We must not forget the Angles, Picts, and Scots, etc. Then come the Saxons, followed by Danes, Norsemen, etc. After that the Normans, and a continual stream of other nationalities. All these go to make up the Englishman. lam writing this from memory. 1 have no doubt if one had references and a large library alongside, one could find quite a lot of other races being mixed up with this lot, to form the Englishman. One has only to stand on the Bank of New Zealand corner or any other street corner, and watch the people passing, to see the types—the Celts with broad heads, the Therians with the long, narrow head, and the Semitics with the characteristic nose, Ct While, England and Scotland aTe still mixing the races, the United States is doing much more, and the Lord only knows what they will produce in the end; something startling, I have no doubt.—Yours, etc., GEORGE LEE. Templeton, February Bth, 1930.