Portions of the country were plainly inhabited, but the inhabitants did not learn Roman ways, like those who lived east of the Exe.

Even tin-mining was not pursued very actively till a comparatively late period, though the Bodmin settlement may be connected with tin-works close by.] [Illustration: FIG.1.THE CIVIL AND MILITARY DISTRICTS OF BRITAIN.] Secondly, the distribution of civilian life, even in the lowlands, was singularly uneven.

It is not merely that some districts were the special homes of wealthier residents.

We have also to conceive of some parts as densely peopled and of some as hardly inhabited.

Portions of Kent, Sussex, and Somerset are set thick with country-houses and similar vestiges of Romano-British life.