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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England
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Historical SummaryAlthough the monk Gildas wrote some five hundred years after Tacitus, and more than six hundred years after Cæsar, the same mistake is still made about the size of Britain, which the ancients had always overestimated.
De Excidio Britanniae, Sect. 3; GILRS, Six Old English Chroniclers, p. 299. World History 4. Account by Gildas, About A.D. 560
The island of Britain, situated on almost the utmost border of the earth, towards the south and west, and poised in the divine balance, so to speak, which supports the whole world, stretches out from the southwest towards the north pole, and is eight hundred miles long and two hundred broad, except where the headlands of sundry promontories stretch farther into the sea. It is surrounded by the ocean, which forms winding bays, and is strongly defended by this ample and, if I may so call it, impassable barrier, save on the south side, where the narrow sea affords a passage to Belgic Gaul.
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Chicago: "4. Account By Gildas, About A.D. 560," Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) (Boston: Ginn, 1935, 1922), 6. Original Sources, accessed September 23, 2023, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZULYERX48GHESCU.
MLA: . "4. Account By Gildas, About A.D. 560." Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, edited by Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947), Boston, Ginn, 1935, 1922, page 6. Original Sources. 23 Sep. 2023. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZULYERX48GHESCU.
Harvard: , '4. Account By Gildas, About A.D. 560' in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England. cited in 1922, Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. , Ginn, 1935, Boston, pp.6. Original Sources, retrieved 23 September 2023, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZULYERX48GHESCU.
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