Chapter XVI

_Ar-Mor._--I entertain considerable doubt whether at the period
of which I write the Celts had penetrated so far as the west
coast of France; but at any rate they were already in the
east, and upon the Rhone. I have ascertained the existence of
anterior races, such as the Mongoloids and Australoids, and
both here and in a subsequent chapter have referred to them. I
plead guilty to an anachronism of four whole centuries, but I
felt that to the general reader it would seem strange that I
should depict my Phœnicians landing in Gaul without meeting
with some well known Gallic people; all that I can say in
extenuation is that I have endeavoured to construct my story so
as to make the anachronism not too flagrant.--_Page 244._