The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . In the year ?»77 a band of Wist Saxons forced theirwa\. pliMidering and destro\ing as the\ went, up the lich \alle\- ol the ;onimii was taken, and, as the bard lamented, The white town in the \alle\went up in flames, the town of white stone gleaming among tlie green wnodland ;the hall of its chii-llain lelt without fire, without light, without .song: the sihucebroken <inl\- bv the ejigles scream—llie eagle who had swallowed fresh drink —hearts lilood of Kd\lan the Fail-. The
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . In the year ?»77 a band of Wist Saxons forced theirwa\. pliMidering and destro\ing as the\ went, up the lich \alle\- ol the ;onimii was taken, and, as the bard lamented, The white town in the \alle\went up in flames, the town of white stone gleaming among tlie green wnodland ;the hall of its chii-llain lelt without fire, without light, without .song: the sihucebroken <inl\- bv the ejigles scream—llie eagle who had swallowed fresh drink —hearts lilood of Kd\lan the Fail-. The walls of Iriconium were three milesin extent, and llii area eni-Iosed was larger li\ nearly a third than that of Tonipeii. The Seveen.] WROXETER AND ITS HISTORY. 97 Excavations have been made wliicli have disclosed u l)asilica, or public hall, a hypo-caiist belonging- to the baths, and many foundations of houses; but no work of ahigfli class, eitlier in architecture or in decorative art, lias 1)een at best was only a provincial city, and that in distant Britain ; and. THE SEVERN FKOM IlENTHALI. EIIGE (^A 98). even if it had possessed anv inijioitant buildinj;s, the}- would have i)erislied, if notfrom the fury of the barbarian invaders, at least by the hands of those in later days,wdio used it as a quarry. Most of the things dug up arc preserved in the nuiseumat Shrewsbury. In the corner of the hypocaust three skeletons were found—oneof a man, and two of women; by the side of the former lay a heap of copper coins,numbering a hundred and thirty-t\\(), which belonged to the days of the lateremperors, and some bits of rotten wood and rusty iron, which may have been thefragments (jf a box. It is supposed that som(> jioor wretches, perhaps servants atthe baths, sought refuge here during the sack of the city, and tlien perished, eithersufPocated by the smoke of its Inu-ning or Ijuried alive by the fahen ruins. ??? Below Wroxeter, the undulation of the co
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