ANGLE-LAND. 



NOTWITHSTANDING what learned antiquaries and 

 historians have said about the name of England, 

 or Angle-land, being derived from the Angles, an 

 obscure tribe from Jutland which, by the way, is 

 never mentioned by our most ancient annalists as 

 forming a considerable body of the Saxon invaders 

 of Britain it is not unlikely that they may all 

 have been hunting on a false scent. The most 

 obvious derivation is from Angling, the mystery of 

 catching fish with rod and line ; an elegant branch 

 of the fine arts, in which the people of this country 

 excel all other nations, and the instinctive love of 

 which, becoming more intense in each succeeding 

 generation, they probably derive, from an illus- 

 trious race of angling ancestors, who flourished the 

 long rod during the Heptarchy ; and from whom 

 the seven kingdoms, when united under one crown, 

 were called Aengle-land ; a name in which all would 

 cordially agree as peculiarly appropriate, since, from 

 St. Michael's Mount to the Frith of Forth which 

 we believe was the extent of " Old" England they 

 were anglers all. Hence, natio Anglia est ; and till 

 the end of time may the love of her children towards 



