of themdwelt in the towns. The population was substantially one ofRomanized natives, and these rural mansions are better regardedas the seats of the country squires—native gentlemen who hadadopted Roman tastes, and whose wealth lay in their broadacres, and in their crops and herds. HOUSES OF THE… … This distribution represents the portions of the island where thepopulation was the most Romanized and wealthy, and wherethe conditions of life were best and the land most cultivated.These houses were not fortified, nor were their sites selected for 158 ROMANO-BRITISH BUILDINGS AND EARTHWORKS…
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