...cincture of lagoons. 1 Vide Sir E. Hertslet's Map of Europe by Treaty, vol. ip 269. 2 Ann. i. 60-71. These, however, as cultivation, settlement, and drainage...mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee as a Frontier against the Welsh. Palisades have been found as far apart as the borders of China and Manchuria and...

...which, by the Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum, was made the boundary between the English territories and the Danes. An early English example of the other...mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee as a Frontier against the Welsh. Palisades have been found as far apart as the borders of China and Manchuria and...

...unscrupulous monarch who conquered some land beyond the Severn, made the famous rampart called "Offa's Dyke," from the mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee, and was a friend and ally of the German Emperor Charlemagne. Indeed, his political influence was far-reaching....

...in the west. To protect his possessions from raids by the Britons he built a wall of earth extending from the mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee. This earthwork still exists in part and is known as Offa's Dyke. During Offa's reign the intercourse...

...Indeed, the very fact that Offa found it necessary to cut this long dike, which extends for 130 miles, from the mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee, is in itself a conclusive proof of constant danger of incursions into Mercia by the Welsh. The other...

...constructed by Offa (d. 796), king of the Mercians, to keep the Welsh within their mountains, and extends from the mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee. Roughly parallel with it, a few miles to the W., runs Watt's Dyke. The space between the two entrenchments...

...them the city of Shrewsbury, and secured his conquests by making a great rampart and ditch reaching from the mouth of the Wye to the mouth of the Dee. This was called Ofla's Dyke, and parts of it are still remaining, as, indeed, the line it traced has...