ound and ditch, together with the stockade, protected
the place.

~stockade~: a barrier made of _stakes_ stuck in the ground.

~Gaul~: the old name for the country now called France--the land of the
Galli, or Celts. _Gaelic_ is the language still spoken by the Celts in
Scotland.

~Thanet~: a district in the north-east of Kent, containing Ramsgate,
Margate, and Broadstairs. The river Stour parts it from the rest of
Kent, so that it is still an 'island,' though the channel was formerly
much wider and deeper.

~Captain Cook~: a famous sailor born 1728, murdered in the Sandwich
Islands 1779. He was among the first to visit Australia and New Zealand,
and made many discoveries in the Pacific.

~Polynesians~: the natives of Polynesia, or the smaller islands in the
South Pacific. They are brown-skinned, and akin in race to the Maories
of New Zealand and the Malays.

~Brythonic~: that portion of the Celts whose descendants are now the
Welsh, Bretons: (in Bretagne, on the west coast of France), and
Cornishmen.

~Basques~: the natives of a part of northern Spain, near the Pyrenees.
Their language is unconnected with any other, except perhaps that of the
Finns. The Province and Bay of Biscay is named after them.

~Finns~: the natives of Finland in Russia. Like the Basques, they are
the remains of a nation which once spread over all Europe, and has now
nearly disappeared.

~barrow~: a mound raised over a grave.

~Verulam~: an old British, and then a Roman town, on the site of which
is now St. Albans, in Hertfordshire.

3. ROMAN LONDON. PART I.

~Stationary camp~: a fixed or permanent camp; a fort. A Roman army on
the march constructed a camp if it only spent one night in a place. Such
camps were not stationary.

~Porchester~: a small town on the north side of Portsmouth Harbour.
Chester is the Latin _castra_, a camp, and occurs in Leicester,
Colchester, Chester, Silchester, &c.

~rubble~: small rough stones often used inside piles of masonry.

~Silchester~: a place near Reading at which remains of old Roman
buildings have been dug out.

~Mincing Lane~: a narrow street in the east part of the City.

~tribunal~: the place where judges sit to administer justice.

~Exchange~: the place where merchants meet and carry on their business.

~stevedores~: those engaged in the work of loading and unloading ships.

4. ROMAN LONDON. PART II.

~Tesselated~: formed of small pieces of stone or tile of various colours