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tinuity between Eoman and Saxon times. Among them I 
need hardly say are Colchester and Maldon. But for further 
evidence of the survival of Roman manners, customs, &c., for 
centuries after their departure from Britain, I have no space, 
and can only refer those interested in the subject to Mr. Coote s 
work on the Romans in Britain. 
In short, the evidence seems to me to favour the view of 
Professor Pearson that the more Romanized Britons, and the 
many Roman colonists of various nationalities in the eastern 
half of Britain, easily consented, as a rule, to exchange the 
rule of Roman officials for that of Anglian or Saxon chiefs, 
while the less Romanized and civilized tribes of the West 
preserved more feeling of British nationality, and showed 
more animosity against the Teutonic invaders. For the maps 
show but few Roman towns or roads west of a line ranging 
from Dorset through Gloucestershire and West Yorkshire to 
the mouth of the Tweed. At the same time, as Professor 
Pearson points out, the early Welsh literature shows but the 
slightest acquaintance with the country east of the line just 
mentioned. No doubt eastern, or the more Romanized half 
of Britain was to a great extent a land alien in feeling, and 
to some extent in language, to the wilder tribes of the West. 
For we have the evidence of Tacitus that one of the principal 
objects of the introduction of Roman luxury among the 
British chiefs was to check the formation of feelings of 
nationality and manly independence, and to render those 
accustomed to the Roman toga and banquet the willing slaves 
of Roman rule (‘ Agricola,’ Chap. 21). 
While the fact that our language is mainly Anglo-Saxon 
has caused our present population to be considered as much 
more Anglo-Saxon than the evidence seems to warrant, it is 
probable that the Scandinavians, who only began to settle on 
our shores more than four centuries after the coming of the 
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes,—when the language of the latter 
had established its supremacy,—must have had their numbers 
and influence considerably under-estimated. Of course there 
are plenty of Scandinavian place-names, especially in the 
northern counties, such as Grimsby, Derby, Nether by, and 
