 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...security of themselves and cattle against the incursions of their enemies."|| Strabo observes that " the forests of the Britons are their cities, for when they have cleared, and enclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves,... | |
 | James Logan - Celts - 1843 - 568 pages
...security of themselves and cattle, against the incursions of an enemy; for, when they have inclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build...houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle." In this description, he is less satisfactory than on other occasions; for it gives no just idea of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1844 - 734 pages
...the rain. Strabo says, " The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have inclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build...houses for themselves, and hovels for their cattle." i Ceesar, which still exist in the shape of an oval near Dartford,) in the centre of his tribe's territories... | |
 | John Dunkin - Dartford (England) - 1844 - 606 pages
...together at top, and covered with grass, sods, or reeds, to exclude the rain. Strain says ' The fortresses of the Britons are their cities, for when they have enclosed a very large space with felled trees they build within houses for themselves, and hovels for their cattle.' t Casar,... | |
 | English essays - 1844 - 752 pages
...circular hole, fastened together at top, and covered with sods, grass, or reeds to exclude the rain. Strabo says, "The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have inclosed a very large circuit with fell»d trees, they build within it houses for themselves, and hovels... | |
 | Alfred John Dunkin - 1844 - 148 pages
...together at top, and covered with grass sods, or reeds, to exclude the rain. Strabo says, " the fortresses of the Britons are their cities ; for when they have enclosed a very large space with felled trees, they build within houses for themselves, and hovels for their cattle." By... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 900 pages
...;" and Strabo observes, " The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have inclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves and hovels 1'or their cattle. These buildings are very slight, and not designed for long duration." What Ciesar... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...houses were of stone, of which there are still some remains in Cornwall, Anglesey, and other places. inclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves and hovels... | |
 | W. Andrew - Civilization, Roman - 1848 - 116 pages
...their cities ; that when they enclosed a large circle, with the trees that were felled, they built within it, houses for themselves, and hovels for their cattle : these buildings were slight, and frequently not designed for long duration. In speaking of the British towns, or encampments,... | |
 | William Frederick Mylius - 1849 - 472 pages
...straw, with a tapering roof, and without a chimney. They had nothing answering to our notion of a town. Strabo says, " The forests of the Britons are their...trees, they build within it houses for themselves and their cattle." Wholly uncultivated as was the greater part of the country, it was most probably not... | |
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The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have enclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle. 
