In view of this feat, and of an illustration of the type of vehicle in which the journey was supposedly accomplished, it was generally accepted that Herr Cissa's definition of _gig_ was fantastic, whereupon the Saxon, protesting, "You do not care one iota for our gigantic works of Kultur and Science, for our social organisation, for our Genius!" asserted the dignity of his _gig_ definition by whipping up his horses, taking a wrong direction, and roving at random from the enclosure. FOOTNOTES: [400] With Ecne may be connoted _ech_, the Irish for _horse_. [401] _Irish Myth. Cycle_, p. 82. [402] _Germania_, x. [403] "The senses of the horse are acute though many animals excel it in this respect, but its faculties of observation and memory are both very highly developed. A place once visited or a road once traversed seems never to be forgotten, and many are the cases in which men have owed life and safety to these faculties in their beasts of burden. Even when untrained it is very intelligent: horses left out in winter will scrape away the snow to get at the vegetation beneath it, which cattle are never observed to do."--Chambers's _Encyclopædia_, v., 792. [404] Bayley, H., _The Lost Language of Symbolism_, vol. ii. _Cf._ chapter, "The White Horse". [405] _Nauticaa Mediterranea_, Rome, 1601. [406] Brock, M., _The Cross: Heathen and Christian_, p. 64. [407] "The oak, tallest and fairest of the wood, was the symbol of Jupiter. The manner in which the principal tree in the grove was consecrated and ordained to be the symbol of Jupiter was as follows: The Druids, with the general consent of the whole order, and all the neighbourhood pitched upon the most beautiful tree, cut off all its side branches and then joined two of them to the highest part of the trunk, so that they extended themselves on either side like the arms of a man, making in the whole the shape of a cross. Above the insertions of these branches and below, they inscribed in the bark of the tree the word Thau, by which they meant God. On the right arm was inscribed Hesus, on the left Belenus, and on the middle of the trunk Tharamus."--Quoted by Borlase in _Cornwall_ from "the learned Schedius". [408] _Ancient British Coins_, p. 49. [409] _The Coin Collector_, p. 159. [410] _Numismatic Manual_, p. 225. [411] Jewitt, L., _English Coins and Tokens_, p. 4. [412] Head, Barclay, V., _A Guide to the Coins of the Ancients_, p. 1 (B. M.). [413] Akerman, J. Y., _Numismatic Manual_, p. 228. [414] Akerman, J. Y., _Numismatic Manual_, p. 10. [415] The earliest "Lady" of Byzantium was the fabulous daughter of Io, _Cf._ Schliemann, _Mykene_. [416] Macdonald, G., _The Evolution of Coinage_, p. 5.