required
two
hundred
and fifty
men to
accomplish
fifty
years ago.
The
production
has been
commensurate.
England
already
had this
laborious
race, rich
soil,
water,
wood,
coal,
iron, and
favorable
climate.
Eight
hundred
years ago,
commerce
had made
it rich,
and it was
recorded,
"England
is the
richest of
all the
northern
nations."The
Norman
historians
recite,
that "in
1067,
William
carried
with him
into
Normandy,
from
England,
