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end of time may the love of her children towards 

 the gentle art, and their skill in its exercise, continue 

 to render the name appropriate ; for so all piscatory 

 authors, "booksellers, publishers, and tackle-makers, 

 are in duty "bound to pray. The conjecture that 

 the name Anglia, or Aengle-land, is derived from 

 "angling," -will "be considerably strengthened 

 when we consider that the more ancient name, 

 Britannia, is most probably derived from Britthyl, 

 a trout, meaning the country abounding in trouts; 

 a much more feasible etymology than that of Hum- 

 phrey Lhuyd, who derives it from Pryd and Cam, 

 fertile and fair: a far-fetched etymology, for which 

 Buchanan a savage with the rod, as the royal 

 breech of James VI. could testify scourges him 

 soundly. The change of name, from Land of Trouts 

 to Land of Anglers, is at once simple and natural, 

 and exactly what a philosophical etymologist would 

 be most likely to infer. Let any person look at the 

 map of England, including in his survey Scotland, 

 Ireland, and the Principality , that is, if he have not 

 personally visited each country, which every gentle- 

 man, at least, ought to do before making the tour of 

 Europe and from the brooks, becks, and burns 

 which he will see rising in all directions, and 

 winding through the country, at last forming a noble 

 river, capable of bearing on its bosom the native oak, 

 which erst shaded its banks, but now formed, to bear 

 Britannia's thunders, and " to quell the depths below," 

 and he will directly perceive, from the very physical 



