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REFERRING to Mr. W. F. Barrett's letter I would remark that there is a similar phrase, viz. the westerly or north-westerly progress of nations, which is intimately connected with “the westerly progress of cities,” and the former helps to explain the latter. As a rule the more westerly of two peoples inhabiting a country is there by compulsion, having been driven thither by the invader who, as a rule, makes the attack from the east. The remnants of the ancient Celtic race, inhabiting portions of the western shores and highlands of Spain, France, and the British Isles, are an evidence of this. We see the same process going on now in America: the aborigines being driven before the invader, to the west. There are insignificant exceptions, both in ancient and modern times, but they only prove the rule.
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JENKINS, B. The Westerly Progress of Cities. Nature 8, 182 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008182d0
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