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inhabited, as far as Mecklenburg and Schleswyck, by seven petty Ger- 
man tribes, of whom the Angles and Warn'es have preserved their names 
down to tire present time ; while the others have been melted down into 
that of the Saxons. In the fifth century, the Saxons and Angles united 
with the Jutes and Friesians, and migrated to England. (This is Low’s 
colonization.) Subsequently, the Holstein Saxons, who dwelt to the 
north of the Elbe, were called by the name of Normans ; while the name 
of Holstein is not mentioned in history before eight hundred years after 
Christ In 1128-64, the Holstein province Uagrien was conquered and 
converted to Christianity, and partly peopled with strange colonists from 
Friesland, Holland and Westphalia. 
It appears that, with regard to its fitness as a grazing and cattle-breed- 
ing country, Holstein is of later date than Holland ; which fact will 
appear the more prominent after some account has been made of the old- 
est inhabitants of Holland and their pursuits. 
What Hiotory Sayo. 
For this purpose I at once direct the attention of the reader to tho 
coming of the Friesians and Batavians. The former were the oldest 
inhabitants of Holland, and were known as herdsmen, hunters and fisher- 
men. Their history in this country goes as far back as 300 years before 
Christ. The Batavians came 200 years later ( 100 years before Christ) 
down the Rhine; and, although they were likewise herdsmen, they occu- 
pied themselves more particularly with hunting and fishing. 
The lands of the Friesians comprised the whole country to the north of 
the Rhine as far as the shore of the North Sea, to which West and East 
Friesland belonged, composing the present Dutch provinces of Groningen, 
Friesland, Dreuthe, and North Holland, besides the provinces of Utrecht, 
Overysscll, and a part of Gulderland and South Holland. Of all these 
provinces, Groningen alone appertained to East Friesland. 
Tacitus says of the Friesians and Batavians : “They owned cattle, not 
excelling in beauty, but in number.” He further states, as does also 
Julius Caesar, that the Friesians and Batavians paid each other in cows, 
sheep and goats, and gave likewise to their children as dowry, oxen adapted 
to the yoke and plough, cattle and horses. When they were subdued by 
the Romans in the first century of our era, the conquerors derived much 
advantage from this wealth in cattle, and imposed upon the Friesians an 
annual tribute, consisting of cow-hides and meat ; while they chose their 
most valient warriors from among the Batavians. 
The Friesians and Batavians applied themselves to the draining their 
marshy lands and their islands, created meadows on the recltumed soil. 
