~Finns~: the natives of Finland in Russia. Like the Basques, they are the remains of a nation which once spread over all Europe, and has now nearly disappeared. ~barrow~: a mound raised over a grave. ~Verulam~: an old British, and then a Roman town, on the site of which is now St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. 3. ROMAN LONDON. PART I. ~Stationary camp~: a fixed or permanent camp; a fort. A Roman army on the march constructed a camp if it only spent one night in a place. Such camps were not stationary. ~Porchester~: a small town on the north side of Portsmouth Harbour. Chester is the Latin _castra_, a camp, and occurs in Leicester, Colchester, Chester, Silchester, &c. ~rubble~: small rough stones often used inside piles of masonry. ~Silchester~: a place near Reading at which remains of old Roman buildings have been dug out. ~Mincing Lane~: a narrow street in the east part of the City. ~tribunal~: the place where judges sit to administer justice. ~Exchange~: the place where merchants meet and carry on their business. ~stevedores~: those engaged in the work of loading and unloading ships. 4. ROMAN LONDON. PART II. ~Tesselated~: formed of small pieces of stone or tile of various colours arranged to form a pattern, like mosaic work. ~Diana~: the Roman Goddess of Hunting; also of the Moon. ~Apollo~: the Roman God of Poetry, Music, and Prophecy. ~Guildhall~: the hall of the Guild or Corporation of the City of London, near Cheapside. ~usurper~: one who by force seizes and holds a position which does not belong to him. ~Picts~: wild savages from the country which we call Scotland; ~Scots~, also savage men, who, though they afterwards gave their name to Scotland, at that time came from Ireland. ~Hong Kong~: an island off the coast of China; ~Singapore~, a large British seaport on an island of the same name off the south end of the Malay Peninsula; ~West Indies~, a number of islands to the east of Central America in the Atlantic: of those belonging to Great Britain Jamaica is the largest. 5. AFTER THE ROMANS. PART I. ~East Saxons~ were those who dwelt in Essex, the county named after them. ~Crayford~: on the river Cray in north Kent. Here the Saxons under Hengist totally defeated the Britons under Vortimer in 457 A.D. ~Canterbury~ is the burgh, borough, or fortified place of the men of Kent. ~Pulborough~, in Sussex, gives us another form of the suffix. ~chronicler~: a historian, particularly one living in early times. ~Saxons~: German tribes from the district by the mouth of the Elbe; ~Jutes~, from a part of Denmark which still preserves their name, Jutland; ~Angles~, from what is now Schleswig and Holstein. ~Count of the Saxon Shore~: the Roman admiral set to defend the southern parts of the English coast, which were called 'Saxon Shore,' because most liable to attack from the Saxons. ~mercenaries~: soldiers who do not fight for the safety and glory of their own country, but for hire. 6. AFTER THE ROMANS. PART II.