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Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinder, Halford John
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, G. Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Of- i Ht JNIVERSITY r\c ) PLACE-NAMES AND COUNTIES 259 Celtic, and means, as we have already learnt, thetown at the mouth of the Ness. But theseCeltic town names are mostly found in Scotland,Ireland, Wales, and Cornwall. There are not manyof them in England. This is because the Anglesand Saxons destroyed the Celtic villages and drovethe Celts into Scotland and Wales. Some of the oldest town names in Englandcome down to us from the Romans. The Romansfirst visited Britain under their great general,Julius Csesar. At a later time they came againand conquered England, Wales, and the south ofScotland, but they never conquered the Highlandsof Scotland, nor yet Ireland. The Romans held Britain by means of a Romanarmy and Roman governors, but many of thefarmers and traders were still British. TheRoman towns were fortified, and were connectedwith one another by fine straight roads along whichtroops could march with ease. Therefore mostof the names which have come down to us fromthe Romans are t

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