CHAPTER V. 



PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS. 



Notwithstanding what learned antiquaries and 

 historians have said a"bout the name of England, 

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

 scure tribe from Jutland which, by the way, ia 

 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 genera- 

 tion, they probably derive, from an illustrious race 

 of angling ancestors, who nourished 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 





