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and plentiful pastures; large and trading cities situate near together; coasts abounding in fish, and a large river[1] which terminates the province towards the south, form its principal advantages[2].
On the other side of the Elb, after crossing the country of Bremen, we find two small provinces, which have been long united to the crown of Denmark. These are the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, which are comprized within
- ↑ The Elb.
- ↑ “The king of Denmark possesses here Rendsburg, a very strong place, Altona, a town of great trade, and Gluckerstadt, a good fortification.” First Edit.
king of Denmark held an assembly of the states there in 1632. “Among other things, he says, I put myself to mark the carriage of the Holstein gentlemen, as they were going in and out at the parliament-house: and observing well their physiognomies, their complections, and gait; I thought verily I was in England; for they resemble the English more than either Welsh or Scot (though cohabiting upon the same island) or any other people that ever I saw yet; which makes me verily believe, that the English nation came first from this lower circle of Saxony; and there is one thing that strengtheneth me in this belief; that there is an ancient town hard by, called Lunden, and an island called Angles; whence it may well be that our country came from Britannia to be Anglia.” This remark is confirmed by the most diligent inquirers into this subject, who place the country of our Saxon ancestors in the Cimbric Chersonese, in the tracts of land since known by the names of Jutland, Angelen, and Holstein. T.
