This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... and bloody idolatries of the Druids! Compare with this frightful spectacle the present state of the same territory--the plains and dales smiling with cultivation, and graced with commodious buildings, furnished with the productions of art, and all the conveniences of life; the sea-coast exhibiting in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... and bloody idolatries of the Druids! Compare with this frightful spectacle the present state of the same territory--the plains and dales smiling with cultivation, and graced with commodious buildings, furnished with the productions of art, and all the conveniences of life; the sea-coast exhibiting in most places verdant slopes and fertile fields, and here and there a populous town, where convenience and elegance, taste and grandeur are combined, and, where arts, sciences, and commerce flourish;---above all, the inhabitants, both of town and country, enjoying not only the sweets of civilized society, but the invaluable blessings of Christianity. If our hearts are not altogether callous, the striking contrast must awaken emotions of wonder, gratitude, and praise. II. Trenches, camps, forts, and military ways--The district abounds with military antiquities, indications of warlike exploits achieved here in the ages of barbarity and bloodshed: almost every height has been the site of an encampment, and every plain a field of battle. Our moors, in all directions, are intersected with trenches, intended to ward off the attacks of an enemy. Some of these trenches are deep and strong; in many instances they are single, in others double, and in some triple; in general, the agger, or rampart, belonging to them, is formed merely by the earth thrown, oat of the ditch, but very frequently we find it surmounted by a parapet of upright stones. Some of these lines are extended to a great length, dividing one part of a moor or hill from another; but in general they obstruct narrow passes, where they reach from one morass to another, or one slack to another; or they cross the projecting points of hills, cutting off those elevated points, so as to render...
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