Excerpt from A Letter to Dr. Mead Concerning Some Antiquities in Berkshire: Particularly Shewing That the White Horse, Which Gives Name to the Vale, Is a Monument of the West-Saxons, Made in Memory of a Great Victory Obtained Over the Danes A. D. 871 Places where they lived, than even with a relation of the great actions performed by them. To this we may add the partien lar pleafure which this period ought to afford to every Englilh mind, in beholding our Countrymen laid under a greater tye than that of arms, namely of duty and gratitude to their con querors. To fee the Ifland, as it were, emerging out of bar bariry, and improving in all the Roman arts of politenefs, and civility.' To view it's woody dens and cave'rhs changed into buildings of the ber tare, and' mor exquifite workmanlhip; it's wild and uncultivated defart's, into regular parurage, and all the beautifhl fcenes of agriculture; Manufactures of the mor ufeful kinds every day introduced Commerce promoted; and in fbort the whole nation taught how to value, and improve, its riches. This, I fay, to a mind fincerely affected with the love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.