. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. names in Caledonia agreeclosely with thosa of Wales. Thus wefind Pen and Ben designatingmountains. The river names—Tay andTaw, Dee, Clyde and Clwyd, Avon, Esk,Usk, Teviot, Teivi, sufficiently proveclose relationship among the (Cumberland, Westmoreland,etc.) remained Celtic long after LowlandScotland had become Anglo-Saxonised. Norse invasions had a more import
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. names in Caledonia agreeclosely with thosa of Wales. Thus wefind Pen and Ben designatingmountains. The river names—Tay andTaw, Dee, Clyde and Clwyd, Avon, Esk,Usk, Teviot, Teivi, sufficiently proveclose relationship among the (Cumberland, Westmoreland,etc.) remained Celtic long after LowlandScotland had become Anglo-Saxonised. Norse invasions had a more import-ant influence upon Scotland than upon England. The great invasions ofthe ninth century made the Norwegians rulers of the Shetlands, Norsethe Orkneys, the Hebrides, and the Isle of Man; and parts of ^ mainland were dominated or tyrannised over till the twelfth andthirteenth centuries. The Norse language was even adopted in Shetland,Orkney, and Caithness. The Irish coasts, too, especially the principalports, were much invaded by the Danes and Northmen in the ninthcentury, who exercised more or less sway over the country; but they didnot remain in power beyond the eleventh century, and left fewer traces. ENGLISU WATCHMAN (18tH CENTUKY). of their presence in Ireland than in Scotland. I
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