Identifier: annalsofkendalbe00nich (find matches)
Title: The annals of Kendal: being a historical and descriptive account of Kendal and the neighbourhood: with biographical sketches of many eminent personages connected with the town
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Nicholson, Cornelius, 1804-1889. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, Whitaker & co (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y; and the reader must be content if, in searchingthrough dark and distant ages, he can catch here and there aglimpse of the deeds of his ancestors, and the scenes whichhave occurred in or about the place of his nativity. The con-vulsions of a civilized state usually compose a most interestingpart of its history; but the revolutions incident to a barba-rous condition are of such a nature that it may be consideredfortunate for Letters they are consigned to silence and oblivion.Neglecting, therefore, all tradition, and those fables whichare commonly employed to supply the place of history,we shall first briefly consider the state of the inhabitants asit appeared to the Komans on the invasion of this country. The aborigines, as Caesar calls the then inhabitants ofBritain, were a tribe of the Gauls, who emigrated from the banksof the Eyder and the Elbe, in Germany, and settled in thisisland five centuries antecedent to the Christian era. The B fatatatjXSilBi -I i - ir- j _- _^ g -- jfabiL
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£TO«n-S««Arf 2 GENERAL HISTORY. probable conjecture, as Csesar intimates, is, that the interiorparts of Britain, to the north and west, and consequentlyWestmorland, were peopled by the earliest inhabitants; andthe southern parts by those who crossed over from Belgium,in Gaul, for the purpose of invading this island,—all ofwhom had their names from the tribes they sprang from,Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.1 A thorough admixture or amal-gamation of the Danish and Scandinavian race with theAngles and Saxons had taken effect in the north of England,so that Bishop Nicholson, alluding to this admixture, says, Our borderers to this day speak a leash of languages—(British, Saxon, and Danish) in one; and tis hard to de-termine which of those three nations has the greatest sharein the motley breed.2 It is indeed hard to say whether, inthe Westmorland dialect, and in the names of natural objectsabout Kendal, more words belong to the Scandinavian dialectsthan to the Saxon tongue. The habitati

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