The Old Road

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Hilaire Belloc. The Old Road

The Old Road

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ON THE ROAD AND THE. FASCINATION OF ANTIQUITY

THE THEORY OF THE OLD ROAD

THE EXPLORATION OF THE ROAD

INDEX

Footnote

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Hilaire Belloc

Published by Good Press, 2021

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There is more. It was along the green-sand ridge of south England that neolithic man had his principal seat. The getting of iron sprang up before history on the red stone of the Sussex weald; it remained there till our grandfathers' time. The oaks that grew from Kent to Devon, along so many creeks from the Rother to the Tamar, built our first ships. They remained our resource for this industry till the Napoleonic wars. The Victory was launched in Beaulieu River, and the first eye-witness, Caesar, heard that in cultivation the south had preceded the north.

6. Finally, not only was the district the best in England to develop an important road, but the platform or site for that road was ready provided, and invited use much more definitely than did any other way from the narrow seas up into the island.

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