Editorial note — APPENDIX.
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We can hardly agree with Mr. Warner when he says (on p. 12), “That any human being lived on so dreary a spot, at least till the 7th century, is highly improbable,” for we believe that the Kelts occupied the fen islands, and perhaps the hunting folks who peopled our land before the Kelts came did the same.
Thorney may have been “a paradise” at other periods than in William of Malmesbury’s time.