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Roman roads in Britain
- Author: Codrington, Thomas, d. 1918
- Genre: Description and travel
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roman roads in britain
- Author: thomas codrington
- Genre: Description and travel
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: line of Downs Road to the east of Mickleham, skirting the heads of the chalk coombes to Mickleham Down, on which the ridge is traceable. Further on, on Leatherhead Down, it is still very much as described by Aubrey, and fortunately it is fenced in and likely to be preserved. He describes it as in some places 10 yards broad and one and a half yards deep. The mound is now in places upwards of four feet high, measuring from the surface of the Down on the lower side, and six yards wide across the top. The upper part appears to be made of flints, and tertiary pebbles are visible in places. The old road here appears to have for a long time borne the name of Ermyn Street. Beyond Leatherhead Down a lane and hedgerow occupy the site of the road, the lane sometimes being upon and sometimes at the side of the mound. The old coating is visible in places, consisting of flints and tertiary pebbles; the latter, which must have been brought to the road, appear to have given the name " Pebble Lane " to the lane, which continues on in the same straight line to high ground (410') near Thirty Acres barn. Towards Epsom and Ewell the line is lost, but in 1876 it was conspicuous for 200 yards in a field adjoining the Reigate road at Ewell.1 On the north of Ewell by North Cheam and Pilford Bridge, the modern road in a straight line seems to follow it to Morden, and it seems to be continued after a break by the present road through Tooting, which a parish boundary follows. After an interval of two miles the road from Clapham Rise to Newington Butts takes up the same straight line as that between Ewell and Morden, pointing to the south end of Old London Bridge for two miles. High-water level is reached at Kennington Park, and the straight road continues below that level for more than half-a-mile. Onwards i...
untrodden english ways
- Author: henry c henry charles shelley
- Genre: Description and travel
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
over the summer sea
- Author: john harrison
- Genre: Description and travel
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
remains concerning britain
- Author: william camden
- Genre: Description and travel
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I do fear no man, all men feareth me ; I overcome my adverfaries by land and by fea : I had no peer, if to my felf I were true ; Becaufe I am not fo, divers times do I rue ; Yet I lack nothing : I have all things at will, If I were wife and would hold my felf ftill, And meddle with no matters but to me pertaining, But ever to be true to God and my King. But I have fuch matters rowling in my pate, That I will and do I cannot tell what. No man mail let me, but I will have my mind, And to father, mother, and friend I'l be unkind. I will follow mine own mind and mine old trade, Who mail let me ? the divels nails are unpar'd ; Yet above all things new fafhions I love well, And to wear them my thrift I will fell. In all this world I mail have but a time : Hold the cup, good fellow, here is thine and mine." Languages. the people we will now proceed to the Languages. Here would Scholars fhew you the firft confufion of Languages out f Mofes, that the Gods had their peculiar tongue out of Homer ; that bruit Beafts, Birds and Fifhes, had their own proper languages out of Clemens Alexandrinus. They would teach you out of Euphorus, that there were but two and fifty tongues in the world, becaufe fo in pfaim many fouls out of Jacob defcended into Egypt ; I04' and out of Arnobius, that there were feventy two. Albeit Timofthenes reporteth that in Diofcurias, a mart Town of Colchis, there trafficked three hundred Nations of divers languages ; And howfoever our Indian or American difcoverers fay, that inevery fourfcore mile in America, and in every valley almoft of Peru, you mall find a new language. Neither would they omit the Ifland where the people have cloven tongues out of the fabulous Narrations of Diodorus Siculus ; yea, they would lafh...
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