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Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
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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of Grantham. It was at the grammar school of Grantham that Sir Isaac Newton,a native of the neighbouring village of Woolsthorpe, received his early education.The borough boasts a fine parish church, has works for the manufacture of agricul-tural machinery, and carries on a profitable trade in corn, malt, and coal. Itsneighbourhood is much frequented by fox-hunters. LINCOLNSHIRE. 231 In its onward course the Witham wastes the city of Lincoln, superbly seatedon a lofty ridge and the slopes of a hill which commands a view of the Fens. Itis the Lbidiim of the Homans, by whom the * foss-dyke, which joins its crowded Fig. 113.—Lincoln.From the Ordnance Map. Scale 1 : 63.8^0.
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1 Mile. harbour to the Trent, was dug out, and Ermine Street, which traverses the cityfrom north to south, constructed. A gateway and portions of the Roman wallsurvive, and there is a castle built by William the Conqueror, and now used as agaol and assize hall, but all other buildings are overshadowed by the superb cathe- 232 THE BRITISH ISLES. dral, which rises proudly upon the summit of the hill. In the early Middle AgesLincoln was a place relatively of greater importance than it is now, and the onlytowns mentioned in the Domesday Book as having been superior to it wereLondon and York ; and although in course of time it became a city of monks,with fifty-two churches in the reign of Edward VI., it only maintained its eminentposition until the discovery of coal and iron in Western England had deranged thenatural balance of population ; but even now it carries on a very considerablecommerce, and employs several thousand workmen in making agriculturalmachinery. That portion of Lincolnsh

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