Fragments and scraps of history

by Harrison, George, (Sir) d. 1841 (Author)

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\j^ mM lO/ ''%* 1 ''f»,'. fi^^m I ^.^ m ..- .,•,vm Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/fragmentsscrapso02harruoft FRAGMENTS AND SCRAPS HISTORY VOL. II. LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES, 14,CHARING CROSS. 1834. HISTORIA EST TESTIS TEMPORUM, LUX VERITATIS, VITJE MEMORIA, MAGISTER VITj^:, NUNCIA VETUSTATIS. DE 11. 9.CiC. OttATOHK, Ub. C A CONCISE ACCOUNT THE GAULS, EARLIEST PERIODS OF THEIR RECORDED HISTORY CAPTURE OF ROME. THE GAULS, FROM TUK EARLIEST PERIODS OF THEIR HISTORY UNTIL THEIR CAPTURE OF ROME, A.U.C. 364. boundaries of the more ancient or Proper Gaol seemThe marked out by the great hand ofto have been decisively Atlantic Ocean, the sea nowNature. The Northern Channel, the German Ocean and thecalled the British Western and its Northern bounda-Rhine, formed its Alps enclosed it on the Eastries the Rhine and the; ; Pyren^ean mountainsMediterranean sea andand the *.on the South disdained, or theirrestless inhabitants eitherBut its population rendered it inconvenient for them,increasing * Note A. A2 4 HISTORY OF to be confined within the limits which Nature seemed origfinally to have prescribed to them.