24 THE TWO BRITAINS. 
“‘ ] agree with your Papa,” said George’s 
uncle; ‘‘ and I wish the opportunity had 
not been lost, for calling our King, in English 
as in Latin, ‘ King of the Two Britains.’ 
In Latin, you know, George, and as you 
see upon the coin, the King is called, simply 
and classically, ‘ Rex Brittaniarum.’” 
‘* Ah! that puts me in mind of the ‘ King 
of the Two Sicilies ;> and I am often puzzled 
to know why the King of Naples, commonly 
so called, has the more formal title of King of 
the Two Sicilies? I know of but one Sicily ?” 
** You mean the island ; but the other Si- 
cily is the adjacent dominion upon the conti- 
nent of Italy; the dominion of which Na- 
ples is the more immediate capital. I con- 
fess, that [ borrow the thought of the ‘ King 
of the Two Britains’ from that of the ‘ King 
of the Two Sicilies;? and I reckon upon 
many advantages from so calling the sove- 
reign of this realm. I do .not mean that Ire- 
land was ever yet called one of the Britains, 
but I think that the name Great Britain is 
only a duplification of the word ‘ Britain, 
which, in itself, I suspect to mean Great, or 
‘Broad Land,’ or ‘Island;’ and this, either 
