Lincoln Castle

WHEN " the devil looked over Lincoln," he is said to have smiled at man's costly devotion.But if the smile of the arch-enemy of mankind was, as must be supposed, in derision of man's attempts at progress, the occasion of it was singularly ill-chosen, for in the whole of Britain it would be difficult to find a tract for the well-being of which man has exerted himself so much and so successfully.Two thousand years ago, that broad but not unbroken plain which extends from the Wash to the Humber, from the Trent and the uplands of Nottingham and Derby to the German Ocean, was composed of arid heath and moorish fen, contributing little to the material support of man, and probably nothing to his moral culture.Beasts of chase, fish, and water-fowl shared the territory with savage hordes, but little removed from the animals upon which they preyed.By slow degrees, by many generations of men, labouring through many centuries, great things have been achieved.The fen has been banked and drained, and the heath brought under culture, so that the whole expanse is now covered by green pastures and rich root-crops, and year after year the autumnal sun is reflected from broad fields waving with golden grain

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