HISTORIC PHYSIOGRAPHY. 



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Principal Animals in Britain at beginning of Historic Period. 



The following table will give an idea of the principal domestic and wild Mammalia 

 in Britain daring the time of the Roman occupation. 



Romano-Celtic on Brit-Welsh Refuse-heaps. 







aj 





a 



C3 



J3 









> 







o 



O 





DO 



u 



o 



a 



o 



B 



15 





■+3 



o o 



a 



o 







i'x 



C3 



a 

 a 



s-a 



o 



a 

 o 







> 



at 









eq 



> 



< 



h5 



O 



t> 



H 



Cards familiaris . 

 Bos longifrons . 



.Dos 









X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



.Celtic Shorthorn 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



Ovis aries 



Capra hircus 

 Equus caballvs . 

 Sus scrofa 



.Sheep 



X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 



? 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



? 



? 



X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 



.Goat 



..Horse 



Hog 



Canis lupus 

 TJrsus arctos 

 Meles taxus 

 Cervus elaphus . 



.Wolf 



X 

 X 



X 



X 

 X 



X 



X 



X 

 X 





X 



.Bear 



.Badger 



.Stag 



— capreolus, 



— dama 

 Sus scrofa 



Roe 





X 





X 

 X 



X 

 X 





X 





.Fallow-deer 



.Wild Boar 





Physiography. 



The changes wrought in the physical geography of Great Britain during the historic 

 time have consisted, in the main, of the cutting down of forests, and the drainage of 

 morasses, and the reclamation of land from the sea by the hand of man, and these again 

 have reacted on the rainfall. There are, however, other changes, which have been 

 brought about by natural causes. The sediment, washed by the rain from the 

 higher grounds, has accumulated in the mouths of the rivers, forming fertile plains 

 at the expense of the sea. The ancient harbour, for instance, of Pevensey, the 

 Roman Anderida, where the Roman galleys anchored, is now a meadow, and the 

 massive Roman fort which commanded it is now shut off from the sea by green fields. 

 Thanet, also, which was the first foothold of our ancestors in this island, and which at the 

 time of their landing was separated from Kent by a broad channel, is now connected 

 with it by a fertile stretch of alluvium. Many instances of this sort might be added. 



1 The remains from London Wall I identified in the collection of Gen. Lane Fox and the late 

 Mr. Wickham Flower, those from Colchester in that of Dr. Bree, those of Holyshute were sent me by the 

 discoverer, Mr. Swann. 



