{"product_id":"2940013442788","title":"A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND","description":"CHAPTER I--ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper\u003cbr\u003ecorner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea.  They are\u003cbr\u003eEngland and Scotland, and Ireland.  England and Scotland form the greater\u003cbr\u003epart of these Islands.  Ireland is the next in size.  The little\u003cbr\u003eneighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots,\u003cbr\u003eare chiefly little bits of Scotland,--broken off, I dare say, in the\u003cbr\u003ecourse of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the old days, a long, long while ago, before Our Saviour was born on\u003cbr\u003eearth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place,\u003cbr\u003eand the stormy sea roared round them, just as it roars now.  But the sea\u003cbr\u003ewas not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and\u003cbr\u003efrom all parts of the world.  It was very lonely.  The Islands lay\u003cbr\u003esolitary, in the great expanse of water.  The foaming waves dashed\u003cbr\u003eagainst their cliffs, and the bleak winds blew over their forests; but\u003cbr\u003ethe winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and\u003cbr\u003ethe savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the world, and the rest\u003cbr\u003eof the world knew nothing of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous\u003cbr\u003efor carrying on trade, came in ships to these Islands, and found that\u003cbr\u003ethey produced tin and lead; both very useful things, as you know, and\u003cbr\u003eboth produced to this very hour upon the sea-coast. The most celebrated\u003cbr\u003etin mines in Cornwall are, still, close to the sea.  One of them, which I\u003cbr\u003ehave seen, is so close to it that it is hollowed out underneath the\u003cbr\u003eocean; and the miners say, that in stormy weather, when they are at work\u003cbr\u003edown in that deep place, they can hear the noise of the waves thundering\u003cbr\u003eabove their heads.  So, the Phoenicians, coasting about the Islands,\u003cbr\u003ewould come, without much difficulty, to where the tin and lead were.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Phoenicians traded with the Islanders for these metals, and gave the\u003cbr\u003eIslanders some other useful things in exchange.  The Islanders were, at\u003cbr\u003efirst, poor savages, going almost naked, or only dressed in the rough\u003cbr\u003eskins of beasts, and staining their bodies, as other savages do, with\u003cbr\u003ecoloured earths and the juices of plants.  But the Phoenicians, sailing\u003cbr\u003eover to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the\u003cbr\u003epeople there, 'We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which\u003cbr\u003eyou can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called\u003cbr\u003eBRITAIN, we bring this tin and lead,' tempted some of the French and\u003cbr\u003eBelgians to come over also.  These people settled themselves on the south\u003cbr\u003ecoast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a\u003cbr\u003erough people too, they taught the savage Britons some useful arts, and\u003cbr\u003eimproved that part of the Islands.  It is probable that other people came\u003cbr\u003eover from Spain to Ireland, and settled there.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145679454448,"sku":"2940013442788","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013442788_p0.jpg?v=1763581554","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013442788","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}