22/2 THE GEOGRAPHY OF BRITISH HISTORY: A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS 350 AT SUCCESSIVE PERIODS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY: WITH A SKETCH OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF COLONISATION ON THE PART OF THE ENGLISH NATION. BY WILLIAM HUGHES, F.R.G.S. = AUTHOR OF 'A MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY' ETC. -'he himself, with that familiar interest which belonged to his favourite study LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. PREFACE. THIS book owes its origin to the Evening Classes of King's College, London. In conjunction with a fellow-labourer, the Author, during several successive winter-sessions, has been pleasingly engaged in the conduct of a class formed. for the study of English History and Geography—the lastmentioned division of the subject falling to his own share. From the commencement of his task he felt the want of any sufficiently comprehensive work on the geography (historically as well as politically treated) of Great Britain and Ireland, such as he could recommend to the members of his class for use as a text-book. The endeavour to supply this want, and also the higher aim of producing such a work as may be found an available and useful companion to students in general of our country's annals, has led to the production of the "Geography of British History." Those who have been accustomed to look at geography in its historical aspects, whether with reference to the countries of antiquity or to those of later times, will be at no loss to comprehend the sense in which the phrase 'Geography of British History" is used by the writer. A glance at the contents of the earlier half of his volume will more particularly indicate the way in which the subject has presented itself to his view. By the geography of history, the writer understands not only what is universally admitted, at least in theory, to constitute the |