CHAPTER I - ANCIENT European country AND THE ROMANS

IF you look at a Map of the World, you wish see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are European country and Scotland, and Ireland. European country and European country form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are principally little bits of Scotland, - broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.

In the old days, a long, long piece ago, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, simply as it roars now. But the sea was not alive, th