[80] See E. A. Freeman, “Norman Conquest,” vol. i. p. 43.
[81] Preliminary Treatise on the Relation of the Pleistocene Mammalia to those now living in Europe. Palæont. Soc. 1874, chap. ii.
[82] “Equos etiam plerique in vobis comedunt, quod nullus Christianorum in orientalibus facit.” Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland,” vol. ii. p. 459.
[83] Laing, “Norway,” p. 316. Mr. Laing justly argues that the habit of eating horseflesh in Norway, where pasturage is scant, must have been acquired in the luxuriant grassy steppes of Central Asia by the ancestors of the Scandinavians.
[84] Benedict. ad Mensas Ekkehardi Monachi Sangallensis, Pertz. Mon. Germ., vol. vi. p. 117.
[85] “Pleistocene Mammalia.” Palæont. Soc. 1866. Introd. Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Archæology, Paris, and Norwich volumes.
[86] These questions are treated in detail in my Preliminary Treatise, “Brit. Pleist. Mammalia.” Palæont. Soc. 1874.
[87] “Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,” p. 2.
[88] Somerset Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Soc. 1864. “On the Caverns of Burrington Combe.”
[89] Elliott, “Geologist,” 1862, p. 34, ditto p. 167. Huxley, ditto, p. 205. Carter Blake, ditto, p. 312. Mackie, “Proceed. Soc. Antiq.” 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 177.