A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... land which separate the friths of Forth and Clyde , exactly on the same spot where the rampart of Antoninus Pius was afterwards constructed . In the fifth campaign he led his army , over the frith of Clyde , into the north - west parts ...
... land which separate the friths of Forth and Clyde , exactly on the same spot where the rampart of Antoninus Pius was afterwards constructed . In the fifth campaign he led his army , over the frith of Clyde , into the north - west parts ...
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... land forces by slow marches to their winter quarters , through the lately - conquered countries , to keep alive the terror of the inhabit- ants ; while his fleet , having coasted quite around Britain , and discovered that it was an ...
... land forces by slow marches to their winter quarters , through the lately - conquered countries , to keep alive the terror of the inhabit- ants ; while his fleet , having coasted quite around Britain , and discovered that it was an ...
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... lands of Scotland , as far as the friths of Dunbarton and Edinburgh . Observations on that Period . The first colonies which came from Gaul , and took possession of Britain , were its earliest inhabit- ants ; and brought with them their ...
... lands of Scotland , as far as the friths of Dunbarton and Edinburgh . Observations on that Period . The first colonies which came from Gaul , and took possession of Britain , were its earliest inhabit- ants ; and brought with them their ...
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... Land's End on the west . The most valuable articles of the British exports were , tin , lead , iron , gold and silver , corn , dogs , horses , cattle , hides and skins , jeat - stone , and parti- cularly pearls , which according to ...
... Land's End on the west . The most valuable articles of the British exports were , tin , lead , iron , gold and silver , corn , dogs , horses , cattle , hides and skins , jeat - stone , and parti- cularly pearls , which according to ...
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... land tax , raised from the fifth to the twentieth of the produce of all arable lands , according to their fertility , and on pas- ture grounds , or rather on the cattle that grazed on them . The proprietors of mines of all kind of me ...
... land tax , raised from the fifth to the twentieth of the produce of all arable lands , according to their fertility , and on pas- ture grounds , or rather on the cattle that grazed on them . The proprietors of mines of all kind of me ...
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