The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Pakt of the Kc^imax Wall at the Present Day. state. Forests were cleared to widen the area under cul-tivation, and a great corn trade grew up between Britain 24 THE BRITISH NATION and the Roman colonies on the Rhine. The Roman in-troduced the beech-tree, and the nuts of the beech forestshelped to feed great herds of swine for centuries to L-<-^- Bmns-EvE View of Eomax Ilax of a Town. A, thu Town; B, the Escarpincnt; CC, tlie ;; D, the ; E E. the Watoh-Towers. The country began to assume the features of a well-gov-erned p
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Pakt of the Kc^imax Wall at the Present Day. state. Forests were cleared to widen the area under cul-tivation, and a great corn trade grew up between Britain 24 THE BRITISH NATION and the Roman colonies on the Rhine. The Roman in-troduced the beech-tree, and the nuts of the beech forestshelped to feed great herds of swine for centuries to L-<-^- Bmns-EvE View of Eomax Ilax of a Town. A, thu Town; B, the Escarpincnt; CC, tlie ;; D, the ; E E. the Watoh-Towers. The country began to assume the features of a well-gov-erned province. Roman Justice was stern, but it was bet-ter tlian the former appeal to brute force, and tribal warsfor the time disappeared. The couqueror built towns,and introduced the sensuous luxury of Rome: la amplii-theatres, traces of which still remain, the islanders sawthe cruel sports of the capital, and the Roman theatrewas tl-anslated to Britain. Palaces and villas of stone,scattered over the whole land, revealed the wealth of themaster, wliile the squalor of the British slave appeared inthe hovels, often propped against the outer wall. Theshivering Italian met the chill of the nortliern winterby ingenious heating contrivances, and constructed baths THE ROMAN AND THE ENGLISH CONQUESTS 25 Extent of Eomau influence, w ROMAN BUITAIX,About 400 A. D. on a scale trilling indeed as compare
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