~Walbrook~: a small stream that crossed the City from north to south. It flowed near where the Mansion House now stands (Walbrook is a street at the side of the Mansion House), and fell into the Thames at Dowgate, near where Cannon Street Railway Station now stands. ~Fleet River~: a small stream which fell into the Thames near where Blackfriars Railway Station now stands. ~Moorfields~ was a piece of moor land lying to the north of the City, outside the walls. The City gate which led to this district was the Moorgate, a name which still survives in Moorgate Street. ~Ken Wood~, in Hampstead, ~Hainault Forest~, a small piece of wood in Essex, about eight miles north-east of London, and ~Epping Forest~, a larger portion, also in Essex, to the west of Hainault Forest, are all remaining portions of a great forest that once stretched away from London far into the country. ~Chelsea, Bermondsey~: in all such words _ea_ or _ey_ is an old word for island. In this way are formed Winchelsea, Battersea, &c.; ~Thorney~ (where Westminster is now) is the Island of Thorns; and ~Jersey~, Caesar's Island. ~Southwark~: a district of London opposite the City, on the south side of the Thames. It was the South work, or fort, and is spoken of as a village as late as 1327, the accession of Edward III. 2. THE FOUNDATION OF LONDON. PART II. ~Malarious~: causing the air to be bad, and so giving rise to fevers; unhealthy. (Latin _malus_, bad; _aer_, air.) ~Weybridge~, in Surrey, near where the river Wey, after flowing past Godalming and Guildford, falls into the Thames. ~entrenching~: making a trench or ditch. The earth dug out was formed into a mound. The mound and ditch, together with the stockade, protected the place. ~stockade~: a barrier made of _stakes_ stuck in the ground. ~Gaul~: the old name for the country now called France--the land of the Galli, or Celts. _Gaelic_ is the language still spoken by the Celts in Scotland. ~Thanet~: a district in the north-east of Kent, containing Ramsgate, Margate, and Broadstairs. The river Stour parts it from the rest of Kent, so that it is still an 'island,' though the channel was formerly much wider and deeper. ~Captain Cook~: a famous sailor born 1728, murdered in the Sandwich Islands 1779. He was among the first to visit Australia and New Zealand, and made many discoveries in the Pacific. ~Polynesians~: the natives of Polynesia, or the smaller islands in the South Pacific. They are brown-skinned, and akin in race to the Maories of New Zealand and the Malays. ~Brythonic~: that portion of the Celts whose descendants are now the Welsh, Bretons: (in Bretagne, on the west coast of France), and Cornishmen. ~Basques~: the natives of a part of northern Spain, near the Pyrenees. Their language is unconnected with any other, except perhaps that of the Finns. The Province and Bay of Biscay is named after them.