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Lodge . The proper place for the re 74 moru of the members of a Prov . Grand Lodge with the other Brethren still kept tip in ^ ^^
the Prov . Grand Maste ample opportunity of ihtroducing his officers t o-the Brethren , and making such remarks in regard to them which he ^^ m Grand Lodge of Englandyaiu ^ be the practice in ev ery Provincial Grand Lodge .
Akolo-Saxon History As Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
AKOLO-SAXON- mSTOEY AS n ^ LUSTRATED BY ' ^ fp ^ i 0 ^ p M- ; , NO ^ ENCL ATXJ ^ E .
' .- "'' ;¦ ¦ ¦ i ¦¦¦• . - .. ' . ' , - * " ' J : Ik the case of ah extinct racey of "whose literature we have no record leffy we find mater ^ places or indiyiduals ; and if we o ^
names , then we get ^^ by enabling us to ascertain the ethnological relations of the race in question , affords us materials for its Iiist *)^^^ many points of tradition ^ r bi storyy otherwise doubtful . Such are the materials Niebuhr and Augu ^ us Von Humboldt have dealt Avith ; and
it ; Avas by means of theseithat the latter was enabled to lay down that basis of Iberian history , which has reproduced , as it were , a great and extinct nation . He thus traced the Iberian race in Spain , in Gaul , in Britain , and throughout the Mediterranean . It is by like means that the history of the Etruscans has been partly developed .
So , in this country , like materials not only , throw a Jight on our history , but in some cases afford us the only data we have for particular epochs . It is in the names of places , for instance , that we find the chief vestiges ofthe occupation of this island by the Iberians , and which throw great light on an obscure passage in the Agricolco of Tacitus , and the doubtful traditions of the Irish . The names of the
great rivers , in most cases , are of Iberian character , even in districts where Celtic and English forms have replaced all other denominations . So , in comparing the names of places , in Wales , for instance , and England ,: there is a marked difference to be recognized by the superficial observer , which he at once assigns to the difference of language ofthe population . If , however , in a Welsh population or an English
one we go beyond this , and can ascertain that certain names are modern , and some are old , we have then given an historical aspect to our inquiries , and obtained historical materials . A very little consideration will show that these materials are very copious , and by no means unimportant . Take the English districts , for instance , in this island ¦; the number of names is not less than X \ * 4
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Lodge . The proper place for the re 74 moru of the members of a Prov . Grand Lodge with the other Brethren still kept tip in ^ ^^
the Prov . Grand Maste ample opportunity of ihtroducing his officers t o-the Brethren , and making such remarks in regard to them which he ^^ m Grand Lodge of Englandyaiu ^ be the practice in ev ery Provincial Grand Lodge .
Akolo-Saxon History As Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
AKOLO-SAXON- mSTOEY AS n ^ LUSTRATED BY ' ^ fp ^ i 0 ^ p M- ; , NO ^ ENCL ATXJ ^ E .
' .- "'' ;¦ ¦ ¦ i ¦¦¦• . - .. ' . ' , - * " ' J : Ik the case of ah extinct racey of "whose literature we have no record leffy we find mater ^ places or indiyiduals ; and if we o ^
names , then we get ^^ by enabling us to ascertain the ethnological relations of the race in question , affords us materials for its Iiist *)^^^ many points of tradition ^ r bi storyy otherwise doubtful . Such are the materials Niebuhr and Augu ^ us Von Humboldt have dealt Avith ; and
it ; Avas by means of theseithat the latter was enabled to lay down that basis of Iberian history , which has reproduced , as it were , a great and extinct nation . He thus traced the Iberian race in Spain , in Gaul , in Britain , and throughout the Mediterranean . It is by like means that the history of the Etruscans has been partly developed .
So , in this country , like materials not only , throw a Jight on our history , but in some cases afford us the only data we have for particular epochs . It is in the names of places , for instance , that we find the chief vestiges ofthe occupation of this island by the Iberians , and which throw great light on an obscure passage in the Agricolco of Tacitus , and the doubtful traditions of the Irish . The names of the
great rivers , in most cases , are of Iberian character , even in districts where Celtic and English forms have replaced all other denominations . So , in comparing the names of places , in Wales , for instance , and England ,: there is a marked difference to be recognized by the superficial observer , which he at once assigns to the difference of language ofthe population . If , however , in a Welsh population or an English
one we go beyond this , and can ascertain that certain names are modern , and some are old , we have then given an historical aspect to our inquiries , and obtained historical materials . A very little consideration will show that these materials are very copious , and by no means unimportant . Take the English districts , for instance , in this island ¦; the number of names is not less than X \ * 4