and plentiful paftures; large and trading cities fituate near together; coafts abound- ing in fifh, and a large river* which termi- nates the province towards the fouth, form its principal advantages.
On the other fide of the Elb, after crof fing the country of Bremen, we find two fmall provinces, which have been long united to the crown of Denmark. Thefe are the counties of OLDENBURG and DELMENHORST, which are comprized within
king of Denmark held an affembly of the ſtates there in 1632. "Among other things, he fays, I put myfelf to mark the car- "riage of the Holftein "gentlemen, as they were "going in and out at the " parliament-houfe: and "obferving well their phy- "fiognomies, their com- plections, and gait; I "thought verily I was in "England; for they re- "femble the English more "than either Welsh or "Scot (though cohabiting upon the fame ifland) "or any other people that "ever I faw yet; which
- makes me verily believe,
that the English nation came firft from this « lower circle of Saxony; "and there is one thing 66 that ftrengtheneth me "in this belief; that there " is an ancient town hard "by, called Lunden, and "an ifland called Angles; "whence it may well be "that our country came " from Britannia to be "Anglia." This remark is confirmed by the moft diligent inquirers into this fubject, who place the coun- try of our Saxon ancestors in the Cimbric Cherfonefe, in the tracts of land fince known by the names of Jutland, Angelen, and Holftein. T.
- The Elb.
+"The king of Den- "mark poffeffes here "RENDSBURG, a very "ftrong place, ALTONA, a town of great trade, and GLUCKERSTADT, "a good fortification." First Edit.
