ANCIENT LONDON.
PROFESSOR'S DESCRIPTION, j A. end N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 6. | Professor F. Gymer Parsons, lecturing | at London University, said the first j people arrived in England during the I Stone Age, 20,000 years ago. The Eng- ! lish Channel clrd not then exist, England ] being joined to the Continent. The River Thames, the width of which ex- j tended from Hampstead to Duhvich, was j then a tributary of the Rhine. The site of London was chosen because j that was the narrowest point of the river, j The first settlement was on the south j side at Cornhill, near the junction of Wal- J brook and Fleet rivers. Between the years 4 and 40 Anno | Domini, said the lecturer, the earliest Londoners lived in mud and wattle huts. Their favourite walk was along the riverside, on what is now the Strand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 9
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