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who occupied the mountains and marshes of Scotland and Ireland.
This terrible attaches with ferocity continuous break-ins and sorts in the Southerners
country for looting, burning and destroying, as they retired, anything
they could not transport. They lived in impregnable and almost
inaccessible fastnesses, between dark glens and steep mountains,
and on dark islands surrounded by coasts of iron-border and tempestuous
seas. The done Roman legions repeated try to chase out them of
these retreats, but with very small success. For a long time a line of
strengthened places were established through the island, near where the
line of border now lies between England and Scotland; and protecting
this line, the Roman generalses that had position of Britain tried
protects the inhabitants of the southern country to that you/he/she had learned
length to submit peaceably to their hesitation.
One of the most memorable events that happened during the time that
the Romans held possession of the island of Britain it was the visit of
one of the emperors to this northern extremity of his/her dominoes. The
name of this emperor was Severus. He was powerful and prosperous to
house, but its life was embittered by a great calamity the dissolute person,
character and the perpetual disputes of his/her children. To remove them from
Rome, where them their disgraced and them father from them
vicious life and the fierce rivalry and I hate that they was born to each
other, Severus planned an excursion to Britain, while picking them up with him,
in the hope of turning their minds into new channels of thought, and
waking up in them some new ambition and more noble.
To the duration when undertook Severus this consignment, he was advanced in
age and very unsteady. He suffered of very from the gout, so that him
it was not able of to travel from some transport to the agenda, and it bore,
accordingly, almost from the principle to the end on a litter. He crossed the Channel
with his/her army, and, leaving one of his/her children in command in the south