The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^^-^ British descent, while the other three-fourths of Ireland Islesis inhabited by Celts. To make the difTerenceall the greater, the Celts are almost universallyCatholics, while the Scotch-Irish are Protes-tants. The people of the north of Scotlandare Gaels, a Celtic race having no connectionin language or blood with the people of thesouthern half of that country. The Welshare a Celtic people, and have little sympathy 72 The Story of. The Map of Europe 73 with the Enghsh, who are a Germanic Welsh and the Cornish of Cornw
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^^-^ British descent, while the other three-fourths of Ireland Islesis inhabited by Celts. To make the difTerenceall the greater, the Celts are almost universallyCatholics, while the Scotch-Irish are Protes-tants. The people of the north of Scotlandare Gaels, a Celtic race having no connectionin language or blood with the people of thesouthern half of that country. The Welshare a Celtic people, and have little sympathy 72 The Story of. The Map of Europe 73 with the Enghsh, who are a Germanic Welsh and the Cornish of Cornwall andthe people of highland Scotland are the descend- EngnSTants of the ancient Britons and Gaels who conquer Celtic inhabited the island when Julius Caesar and the BritishRomans first landed there. Then five hundredyears afterwards, as has already been told, camegreat swarms of Germans (Angles, Saxons, andJutes), who drove the Britons to the west andnorth, and settled the country now known asEngland. After these, you will recall, came anumber of Danes, another Germanic people,who settled the east coast of England. Two hun-dred years later, the Normans came fromFrance. These Normans had been living inFrance for a century or two, but had come origi-nally from Norway. Normans, Danes, Angles,and Saxons all mixed to make the modern Eng-lish. Together, they fought the Scotch, theWelsh, and the Irish, and having conqueredthem, oppressed them cruelly for many it is in the southea
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