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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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De laristocratie anglaise (Revue des Be>tx-Mondes, 1872). 40 THE BRITISH ISLES. thousand years ago a brutisli churl, whose deeds of violence have been placed onrecord in ancient chronicles. The wonderful transformation is the result of thepatient and unremitting labour of years. No great political revolution has occurredin the country since the seventeenth century, and it is by a process of slow evolu-tion that the English have thus modified their character. None of the vestiges ofthe past have wholly disappeared. In no other country can the progress ofarchitecture since the days of Saxons and Normans be studied with greater advan-tage. Cromwell, the great leveller, razed many castles and burnt numerousabbeys ; but from Arundel to Carnavon, from Salisbury to York, hundreds ofthese mediœval structures, both feudal and monastic, survive to the present day,and all the world is engaged in their restoration. Ancient customs, meaningless Yig;. 19.—AiaNDEL Castle: IxTEitiou Qvadkangle.
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to the general public, are still religiously observed. Terms in Norman French,no longer intelligible on the other side of the Channel, are still employed inlegal documents and on certain occasions of state. Mediœval costumes are wornby the custodians of certain royal buildings, and the children in some of thefoundation schools are still dressed in the style in vogue at the time of theoriginal founders. Leases are granted for ninety-nine and even for nine hundredand ninety-nine years, as if the lessor could insure the existence of his family forall time to come. Testamentary dispositions made in the Middle Ages remain inforce to the present day. Even in London there are streets which are occasionallyclosed on one day in the year, by having barriers placed across them, in order toshow that the owner of the land, although he allows the public to use them, doesnot relinquish his claim to property in the soil. Beating the bounds is INHABITANTS. 41 a procedure still observed in certain par

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