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From Readings in English History Drawn From The Original Sources by Edward P. Cheyney, Ginn and Company; Boston; 1908; pp. 6-7.

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YEAR 1598 A. D.

Description [of Britain] by Paul Hentzner1

Later travelers observed various geographical features, as, for instance, Paul Hentzner, a German, who visited England in 1598 and was much struck with the grass-covered “downs.”]


5. A six-
teenth-cen-
tury trav-
eler’s account
The soil is fruitful and abounds with cattle, which inclines the inhabitants rather to feeding than plowing, so that near a third part of the land is left uncultivated for grazing. There are many hills without one tree, or any spring, which produce a very short and tender grass, and supply plenty of food to sheep; upon these wander numerous flocks, extremely white, and whether from the temperature of the air or the goodness of the earth, bearing softer and finer fleeces than those of any other country: this is the true Golden Fleece, in which consist the chief riches of the inhabitants, great sums of money 7 being brought into the island by merchants, chiefly for that article of trade.



NOTES

1.  From Travels in England, pp. 80 sq.





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