ts."
"Les Mabinogion," translated by Lot, with commentary, Paris, 1889, 2
vols. 8vo.

[21] In several places have been found the quarries from which the stone
of Hadrian's wall was taken, and inscriptions bearing the name of the
legion or of the officer charged with extracting it: "Petra Flavi[i]
Carantini," in the quarry of Fallowfield. "The Roman Wall, a description
of the Mural Barrier of the North of England," by the Rev. J. C. Bruce,
London, 1867, 4to (3rd ed.), pp. 141, 144, 185. _Cf. Athenaeum_, 15th and
19th of July, 1893.

[22] C. F. Routledge, "History of St. Martin's Church, Canterbury." The
ruins of a tiny Christian basilica, of the time of the Romans, were
discovered at Silchester, in May, 1892.

[23] Quantities of statuettes, pottery, glass cups and vases, arms,
utensils of all kinds, sandals, styles for writing, fragments of
colossal statues, mosaics, &c., have been found in England, and are
preserved in the British Museum and in the Guildhall of London, in the
museums of Oxford and of York, in the cloisters at Lincoln, &c. The
great room at Bath was discovered in 1880; the piscina is in a perfect
state of preservation; the excavations are still going on (1894).

[24] "Itinerarium Cambriae," b. i. chap. v.

[25] "Ut qui modo linguam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent: inde
etiam habitus nostri honor, et frequens toga; paullatimque discessum et
dilinimenta vitiorum, porticus et balnea, et conviviorum elegantiam."
Tacitus, "Agricolae Vita," xxi.

CHAPTER II.

_THE GERMANIC INVASION._

"To say nothing of the perils of a stormy and unknown sea, who would
leave Asia, Africa, or Italy for the dismal land of the Germans, their
bitter sky, their soil the culture and aspect of which sadden the eye
unless it be one's mother country?" Such is the picture Tacitus draws of
Germany, and he concludes from the fact of her being so dismal, and yet
inhabited, that she must always have been inhabited by the same people.
What others would have immigrated there of their own free will? For the
inhabitants, however, this land of clouds and morasses is their home;
they love it, and they remain there.

The great historian's book shows how little of impenetrable Germany was
known to the Romans. All sorts of legends were current respecting this
wild land, supposed to be bounded on the north-east by a slumbering sea,
"the girdle and limit of the world," a place so near to the spot where
Phoebus rises "that the