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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have done in a land of clouds and rain like Britain. He likewise found that they made a drink1 by mixing wheat and honey, which is the mead still known in certain parts of Wales; and he is supposed to have been the authority for their use of another drink, which Greek writers3 speak of as made of barley, and drank instead of wine. The name by which it was known to them is still the Celtic word for beer: it was formerly curmi, and it now makes cuirm in Irish, and cwrw in Welsh. Thus we have ample evidence that in the fourth century before our era the Aryan farmer had made himself thoroughly at home in Britain. Now the expedition of Pytheas had been got up for practical purposes by his fellow-citizens, the Greeks of Marseilles, and it resulted undoubtedly in the extension across Gaul of their trade, directly or indirectly, to the corner of Britain nearest to the Continent. Some light, it may be added, is shed on this by the fact, that the first coins supposed to have been struck in the island, long as that happened after Pytheas's time, were all modelled after Greek coins made during his time. This points to a trade then opened with the north.3 Some two centuries later another Greek of note extended his travels to the island and visited Belerion,4 as he called the district in Cornwall wheretin was found. This was Posidonius, with whom Cicero studied at Rhodes. Besides his description of the people and their method of working the tin, Posidonius is supposed to have been the authority of Diodorus Siculus1 for stating, that the inhabitants of Britain lived in mean dwellings made for the most part of reeds or wood, and that harvest with them meant the cutting off the ears of corn and storing them in pits underground, whence were fetched day by day those that had been longest in kee...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217188470 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217188478 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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