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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt:...Cornouaille to Blaatand with the express intent Cotentin. r that the Danish settlement should command all Normandy, he could not have selected a posiHaroid tion better calculated to answer that object. The ltlaatand's..... if i pi head-tradition assigning the foundation ol "Laesaris quarters at (-her-Burgus to the Roman Hero may be doubtful, bourg.. J but though the opinion that he there prepared for the conquest of Britain cannot be accepted as an historical fact, it evidences the popular appreciation of the importance possessed by a position, giving the mastery over all the adjoining coasts, whether by land or sea. sailed round to the estuary of the Dive, the stream which divides the Lieuvin from the Bessin, the latter being the district immediately adjoining the Baillage of Caen. The whole of this coast has sustained great alterations. To the west of the Dive, pirogues and semi-fossilized human bones have been excavated at a depth of more than twenty feet; and, above them, the ploughshare discloses the memorials of comparatively recent generations, coins of the Antonines, and other relics, dating from the Empire. It has been calculated prefJ that the alluvial soil deposited by the agency of the adjoining rivers, raises the surface of the coarse meadows under which these objects have been discovered, at the rate of about half a foot in each hundred years. The river Dive, now sluggish and narrow, and flowing to the east of the salt-marshes of Corbon, --the latter almost desiccated at present, --then fell into the open sea at Bavent, near Troarn, above Warville. It was up to Bavent that the Danish vessels sailed. The shore has advanced more than ten English miles beyond the points which marked the mouth of the river, so late as the...