"Gaul" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Like Caesar's Gaul, Cat was "divided into three parts"; first, Ness, which was co-extensive with the modern county of Caithness, a treeless land, excellent in crops and highly cultivated in the north-east, but elsewhere mainly made up of peat mosses, flagstones and flatness, save in its western and ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray
... Atilla II. is naturally impelled by the "spiral" to do his best from a distance, by destroying the Cathedral which wasn't begun in his predecessor's day. But what does he think, I wonder, about the prophecy? That in Rheims—scene of the first German defeat on the soil of Gaul—Germany's last defeat will be celebrated, with great rejoicing in the Cathedral ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Low Countries belong both to Gaul and to Germany. It is even doubtful to which of the two the Batavian island, which is the core of the whole country, was reckoned by the Romans. It is, however, most probable that all the land, with the exception of Friesland, was ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Rollo in his letter to Lucy, contained in the last chapter, is indeed a very remarkable pass. The Romans travelled it nearly two thousand years ago, in going from Italy to France, or, as they called it, Gaul. Caesar describes the country in his Commentaries; and from that day to this it has been one of the greatest thoroughfares ...
— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott
... traditions of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian, Timagenes, who lived in the first century, B.C. Three distinct peoples apparently dwelt in Gaul. First, the indigenous population (probably the remains of a Lemurian race), second, the invaders from the distant island of Atlantis, and third, the Aryan Gauls ...
— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot
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