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a Printer Friendly Page  The Scottish Gael Chapter VIII Of the
architecture of the Celts  IN the'af\ &f ca'strametation, it has
been shown that the early s Celts were by no means deficient.
The state of society gave but little en- couragement to the
study of domestic architecture among these nations, and the
simplicity of their lives did not require the conveniences
afford- ed by this useful and ornamental science.  The little
huts of the Gauls and the Britons were adapted to the wants of
the people, but they were of too slight a construction to leave
any very perceptible remains. The occupations of the pastoral
life did not require, the erection of permanent habitations: in
perambulating a country, it is useless to bestow much labor on a
building that must be soon abandon- ed. The freedom of a
strolling life is congenial to untutored man. The Fenns, Tacitus
says, sheltered themselves with the branches of trees,
preferring this rude and cheerless