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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
ANGLO-SAXON HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY TOPOGRAPHICAL NOKE 3 ^
( Conformed from p . 453 . )
OK THE INTERMIXTURE OF THE WELSH POPULATION WITH THE ' ANGLO-SAXON . ' : '¦¦ . ' " It has been put forward as an argument to coto thesis of Sir Francis Fal g ^ North Germania could have to large population in Britain , if the settfe
is therefore sought to begin the settlement tvvxicehturfo ^ during the Boman period ; This argument , however , rests on a fallacy , because , wliether t ^ very little in a series whie ^ latter date , and during w ^ known to have been for some time stationary . If it be improbable or
impossible that the millions of English how in this country should have sprung from so small a stocky ^ d in such a tim menon of the growth of population must be subjected to the same laws . It is a mu ^ thing that the Welsh population should now be , after deducting the English and Irish population in Wales , not much above half a million , after a stay in the island of above two
thousand years . It is a much stranger thing , on the other hand , that the population of the United States , inlittle more than two centuries , should have reach eighteen millions , by natural growth and immigration . However , the assumptions of Sir Francis Palgrave and his school are altogether irreconcilable with the teachings of statistical facts on the law of population .
The extinction of the Welsh population within the English bounds is one of those facts which is most combated , because it is inconsistent with the favourite theory of the present population having been formed by an admixture with the previous population . What the condition of the population of Britain was during the
latter period ofthe Roman domination , and after the abandonment of JBritain , in the year 420 , there have been few documefits to show , and the history of that period has been treated very much according to the fancy of modern historians . We may , however , deal with some broad facts which bear upon
the question . From the time the Romans made good their footing , two operations exercised an influence on the population ; first , the immigration of settlers and soldiers , and second , the emigration of the natives to become soldiers in the Ronian armies . The influence of these causes
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
ANGLO-SAXON HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY TOPOGRAPHICAL NOKE 3 ^
( Conformed from p . 453 . )
OK THE INTERMIXTURE OF THE WELSH POPULATION WITH THE ' ANGLO-SAXON . ' : '¦¦ . ' " It has been put forward as an argument to coto thesis of Sir Francis Fal g ^ North Germania could have to large population in Britain , if the settfe
is therefore sought to begin the settlement tvvxicehturfo ^ during the Boman period ; This argument , however , rests on a fallacy , because , wliether t ^ very little in a series whie ^ latter date , and during w ^ known to have been for some time stationary . If it be improbable or
impossible that the millions of English how in this country should have sprung from so small a stocky ^ d in such a tim menon of the growth of population must be subjected to the same laws . It is a mu ^ thing that the Welsh population should now be , after deducting the English and Irish population in Wales , not much above half a million , after a stay in the island of above two
thousand years . It is a much stranger thing , on the other hand , that the population of the United States , inlittle more than two centuries , should have reach eighteen millions , by natural growth and immigration . However , the assumptions of Sir Francis Palgrave and his school are altogether irreconcilable with the teachings of statistical facts on the law of population .
The extinction of the Welsh population within the English bounds is one of those facts which is most combated , because it is inconsistent with the favourite theory of the present population having been formed by an admixture with the previous population . What the condition of the population of Britain was during the
latter period ofthe Roman domination , and after the abandonment of JBritain , in the year 420 , there have been few documefits to show , and the history of that period has been treated very much according to the fancy of modern historians . We may , however , deal with some broad facts which bear upon
the question . From the time the Romans made good their footing , two operations exercised an influence on the population ; first , the immigration of settlers and soldiers , and second , the emigration of the natives to become soldiers in the Ronian armies . The influence of these causes