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LESSONS IN ENGLISH HISTORY,
NATURAL HISTORY, SANITARY KNOWLEDGE,
SCIENCE, SOCIAL ECONOMY, ETC.

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LESSON 1.-ANCIENT BRITONS.

Ancestors-forefathers (Latin ante, be-
fore; cedo, I go).
Assassinated-treacherously murdered.
Civilized-polished, as people in society
should be (Lat. civis, a citizen; ize,
verbal termination).

Cavalry-horse soldiers.
Precipitous-exceedingly steep.
Agriculture-the art and practice of hus-
bandry or tillage (Lat. ager, a field;
cultura, cultivation, from colo, I till).

THE people who lived in England two thousand years ago are known as the Ancient Britons. As you would expect, they were widely different in habits and character from the present inhabitants of our country, and were more like the savage natives of the South Sea Islands than the well-clothed, well-fed, civilized, and Christian Englishman.

But as the Ancient Britons are our ancestors in part, we cannot but be interested in their history. We are obliged to confess that they were savages, but we dwell with pleasure on the accounts of their bravery and courage; and when we read of foreigners invading them, we are glad to read that the Britons made a gallant resistance, and gave the invaders much trouble before they were finally subdued. We feel, indeed, that our own character is involved in that of our forefathers.

All our knowledge of the Ancient Britons is obtained from foreigners. At the time we are speaking_of, the civilised nations of the world lived around the Mediterranean Sea, and very little was known of the regions beyond. But merchants used to come to the south of Britain, to what is now Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, and the neighbourhood, in order to get tin from the Cassiterides, or Tin Islands, as they were called. Yet these merchants, who were anxious to keep their profits to themselves, were unwilling to let it be known where they went to obtain their cargoes, and there was only a general idea that there were Tin Islands somewhere

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houses that Cæsar mentions seem to have been buildings of wood; and a number of the houses together, and sometimes surrounded with a ditch wooden palisade, made a town.

people in the south of the country cultivated und, and used the corn that they grew for food; culture was not practised elsewhere.

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