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. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by E.S. Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. to theRomans that Britain was an island. If we look at a map of Roman Britain we find it coveredwith lines running from one town to another, almost as straight as if they had been drawnwith a ruler. These lines Iepresent the famous military roads, which the Romans, the greatest road-makers in the world, made to help in the task of conquering Britain. A part oftheir plan of conquest was to form in different commandingpositions camps in which they might station bodies ofsoldiers, who should check any beginnings of disorder. Sinceit was most important that these troops should be able tomaich quickly from one camp to another one of the first tasksof the Romans in concpiered Britain was to make roads. Ifi AN ENGLISH HISTORY Marvellous in their solidity and in their straightness arethese roads. They seldom turn aside to skirt a liill or avoida river, for their makers cared chiefly that the roads shouldconnect one place with another in the shortest possihle way.Some of them endure to this day.. Roman Camp (Lakk District) Many of the Roman Emperors visited Britain in person, Roman ^^^ ^^ ^^® country some of them left their Emperors mark. For instance, in the vain hope of keeping in Britain back the Picts, as the northern barbarians were then called, the Emperor Hadrian built the great wall whichis still called after his name, between the Solway and themouth of the Tyne. To crush these dangerous foes theEmperor Severus pursued them into their own Highlands, andlost fifty thousand men in his efforts. A later Emperor, Constantius, married a lady of British birth, fair Helena, who in all godly ways and goodly praise did far excel, and THE COMING OF THE ROMANS 17 their son Constantine, born at York, was the first emperor toaccept the Christian faith. Accorchng to their custom theRomans had left the Britons free to follow their own religion, but they had