ompelled the aborigines to adopt.
Occasionally, as in the case of Greece and Rome, the conquered
enslave their masters in regard, at all events, to literature and
art; but this did not obtain in the case before us, for the Roman
occupation of Britain was largely military, and the Britons had
little enough to impart either in literature or art. It is
observable, however, that the Romans either did not seek to impose,
or were unable to impose, their religious ideas on the Britons. In
this connection it must be remembered that the composition of the
Roman legions was largely cosmopolitan.

The moral and religious influence brought to bear upon the native
Britons by reason of the Roman occupation of close on four centuries
can easily be overestimated. A section of the people in the vicinity
of Roman towns were humanized and civilized, but the sequel proved
that (to a certain extent) the fibre of the hardy and courageous
Briton deteriorated and his faculty of resource and fighting
diminished; so that when he was deserted by his Roman masters and
deprived of his leading strings, he fell a prey--though not until
after a protracted and sanguinary struggle--to the Pict and Scot and
Saxon, who were able to combine for the attack, and who were
regardless of ease and privation and love of life. Although the days
of this old time are far away, and the face of the land has changed,
this lesson is not without warning to the ignorant, indifferent,
pleasure-loving sections of our England of the twentieth century, and
this lesson is even now being brought home to us in no uncertain way
in our death-grip with a cruel and relentless foe.

LIST OF TOWNS

Here follows an alphabetical list of the Roman towns described in the
following pages:

Aldborough (Yorkshire), Aldborough (Suffolk), Bath, Caerleon,
Caerwent, Caistor, Canterbury, Cardiff, Chester, Chesterford,
Chichester, Cirencester, Corstopitum, Dorchester, Dover, Exeter,
Gloucester, Isle of Wight, Kenchester, Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln,
London, Lympne, Maldon, Manchester, Portsmouth, Reculver,
Richborough, Rochester, Silchester, St. Albans, Winchester, Wroxeter,
York.

LIST OF TOWNS

ALDBOROUGH--(A.S. burh, buruh, byrig--an earthwork) is situated in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, 16 miles W.N.W. of York. It is now
remarkable only for its numerous ancient remains.

It was the Isurium Brigantum (the capital of the Brigantes) of the
Romans, and here and