[1253] W. Z. Ripley, The Races of Europe, 1900, p. 310; T. Rice Holmes, Ancient Britain, 1907, p. 432.
[1254] G. Coffey and R. Lloyd Praeger, "The Antrim Raised Beach: a Contribution to the Neolithic History of the North of Ireland," Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. XXV. (c.) 1904. See also the valuable series of "Reports on Prehistoric Remains from the Sandhills of the Coast of Ireland," P. R. I. A. XVI.
[1255] Man, IX. 1909, No. 54.
[1256] Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. (3), III. 1896, p. 727.
[1257] Cf. also J. Wilfred Jackson, "The Geographical Distribution of the Shell-Purple Industry," Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. LX. No. 7, 1916.
[1258] Survivals from the Palaeolithic Age among Irish Neolithic Implements, 1897.
[1259] The Dolmens of Ireland, 1897.
[1260] They need not, however, have come from Britain, and the allusions in Irish literature to direct immigration from Spain, probable enough in itself, are too numerous to be disregarded. Thus, Geoffrey of Monmouth:—"Hibernia Basclensibus [to the Basques] incolenda datur" (Hist. Reg. Brit. III. § 12); and Giraldus Cambrensis:—"De Gurguntio Brytonum Rege, qui Rasclenses [read Basclenses] in Hiberniam transmisit et eandem ipsis habitandam concessit." I am indebted to Wentworth Webster for these references (Academy, Oct. 19, 1895).
[1261] H. Zimmer, "Auf welchen Wege kamen die Goidelen vom Kontinent nach Irland?" Abh. d. K. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. 1912.
[1262] J. Gray, "Memoir on the Pigmentation Survey of Scotland," Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst. XXXVII. 1907.