CHAPTER XI. 



THE ROMANS AS ACCLIMATISERS IN BRITAIN. 



lUCH as Great Britain owes to Rome 

 for her gifts of literature and law, 

 civilization was even more largely 

 aided by her in the ordinary con- 

 veniences of daily life. The arts of building and 

 road-making among us retain monuments which 

 at the prefent day and for many ages to come will 

 mow the eminence of the Romans in thefe necef- 

 fary arts. Even ftone buildings with windows 

 and chimneys were firft erected by them. It was 

 not probable that Rome, having fucceeded in 

 pacifying the country, mould not introduce along 

 with improved proceffes of agriculture, and in 

 villas rivalling thofe of Italy or the fouth of 

 France, plants and animals to fill the farmyards 

 and gardens. Indeed, an involuntary introduc- 

 tion of them neceflarily attends any invasion on a 

 large fcale. Weeds and wayfide flowers hitherto 

 unknown to France followed, during the war of 

 1870-71, the invading footfteps of the Germans. 



