Excerpt from The Book of History, a History of All Nations From the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 9: Western Europe in the Middle Ages; Emerging and Development of the Nations; The Holy Roman Empire; France Through the Reign of Louis XIV; England to the Reign of Henry VIII; Scotland in the Middle AgesBut the means of subsistence which they could procure in this way and by their Older industries of hunting and fishing must always have been scanty, and we cannot suppose that they increased in numbers to any great degree. Hence they fell an easy prey to the indo-germanic race of the Kelts. This people, advancing westward through Europe, expelled the Iberians from every land in which they met them. On reaching the Atlantic they broke up into a northern and a southern horde, the latter marching over the Pyrenees into Spain, while the former entered the British Isles. By this time the At lantic had forced a passage through the English Channel. The flat alluvial lands of N orth-western Europe had sunk; and the British Isles were now separated from Scandinavia by the broad but shallow basin of the North Sea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.