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Rfames.-—Extent.—Boundaries.—Originalt Population.—fro^rejfjtve^ Geography.—~
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T H E Se ve.n jy%lTE,D Province's were, fn a h c iM t primes, chiefly Names»
pofleffed by th e Batavi, a people highly ceiehrat'ea h y TacjtuVif-
;h u t the boundaries being modern, there, is n a a n c ie n t a p p e f l w h I c n
particularly d e n i e s , this co u n try ., It rSvec^monly ftylevd th e J republic
©f Holland, from th e n am e ,o f a chief'province ; called from ''th e
Ge rman word ,H ohh. correfponding y /ith tfle Englifli w o r d ^ o l lo w,
an d implying a concave or ve.^yt ibw-coijt^fy." t The, people;‘are called
Dutch from the, German D eutfcb p r T e u tjfb : but DeutTc%fahd'm%~'
perly fignifies Jthe yaft extent o f G m n a n y h tfe lf^ th o u g h ' By." the Eng-^
Hlh re ftrid e d tty a fmafl portion 'ufing a jdlale'ct "of the German language.
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Thefe provinces „extend, from, tne N. o f Groningen, to thejfoutfieri)' Extent,
boundary along Auftrian Flanders' an'd' Braban3t;‘,‘ ab.o'iijy 1 5 0 'BrituK
miles ; and In breadth, from what rs. called th e nIorf'h(Sea ',tb'the circle
o f Weftphalia, about ip p Britilh m ile s tT '1’Ke n um b e r,o f fquare. miles
is, competed, a t wjl
T h e original population appears to* h av e been -Geltic: but wh en the
Rrvmans conquered, this country ‘th e ' 9 hieflnhabhants-were the B a tav i Fubtiwn
' the