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THE FOUNDLINGS

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black cattle are also found in Jersey, Western France, and Switzerland, and remembering who were the early inhabitants of these places and of Northern France, that the brownish-black cattle may have been brought to Britain by the maritime inhabitants who had crossed over from the country of the Belgae for the sake of plunder and war before Cæsar's day.[1]

  1. Cæsar's "Gallic War," bk. v. chapter xii.
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