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TEACHERS, READING CLUB.
A Sketch OF the Geography of Ensla1
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A sketch OF the Geography of England
In Kariy Times
The following sketch Of geography
may assist slme of the club, who may
not have access to large maps of Eng
land. It is very unfortunate that the
maps which accompany the history as
published by the Lakeside Library are
so blurred.
The Island of Tianet,n on which
Hengist and Horsa landed, is situated
just at the entrance of the Thames river,
on the south side, and now forms part
of the main land
Hengist soon conquered the county
Of Kent, which included Kent, Middle
sex, Essex and part of Surrey, and also
sent to Germany for reinforcemen,s to
settle in Northumberland, while he re-
manned in the south of England.
The next Saxon state, in point of time,
was South-Saxony, which name soon
became Sussex, and included a great
| part of Surrey. The leader of this col
ony was Aella, who left the kingdom to
his son Bissa. who reigned &c years
The 'West Saxon state is now Wes-
sex, and included Hants, Dorset, Wits
Berks and the Isle of Wight.
/ Cerdic and his son Kensie were the
principal leaders, and pushed the Brit
ons into Comwell, the southwest coun-
ty of England. Their struggle was long
and bitter, but successful at last.
The East Saxons took Essex and
Mddlesex from the kingdom of Kent,
and joined Hertfordshire to their domain.
The Angles landed on the east coast,
south of The Wash, and the pre- sent
counties of Cambridge. Suffolk and
Buford formed East Anglia.
Mercia included the county of York
and Lincoln and west to the Severn
river, the largest, aud sometimes the
most powerful of the Kingdoms. These
seven divisions formed the heptarchy
but the various battles and sieges
through which these kingdoms passed
before they became a United England
no one deems worth the study. Ever
Milton declares that the ''skirmishes 0
Kites and Crows as much merited a par
ticular narration as the confused trans
F actions and battles of the Heptarchy.
We ought to know that after tn
Britons had been subdued and pusheI
into Wales and Cornell, the Saxoi
kingdoms fought for the supremacy 70
200 years, and although Mercia was al
most successful at times, Wessex's king
Egbert, was crowned king of Unite,
: England, and that his son, Alfred tn
Great, moulded it into a mighty nation
noted for its great learning and pure It
D ligion.
q TOPICS FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISI
[ HISTORY, BOOK II.
Time, 1166 to 1204-Dark Ages.
/. Effect of the Conquest ON the Eng
lish people; on the language.
2. Fendalism in England.
= 3. Doomsday ok,-curfew minsire
sy.
- 4. Date of the church and learning
Cathedral at Canterbury.
= 5. Study the characters of Lafran
. Anslem and Thomas Beckett.
6. Manners and customs of the tim
/" Z. Reigns of Henry 1. and Henry I
8. Richard and the crusades.
HELPS.
u Hume's History. vol. I. Chap. to 1
Macaulay's and Dickens History
'o England.
&c American Encyclopedia.
N History of the Normans in France.
y SCOTS Ivanhoe.
IL Pelgrave's History of Normandy.
Freeman's Lecture on Norman Co
d. quest.
y Shnw's English Literature.
~ Abbott's Richard l.
II Longfel lows Scriptorim.
" TEACHER.