E N' G L ;A; N D,
" . - G - H . A ^ T - E ^ R R ;
H ^ o ^ cw y c ; o®' P r o p r b s s iv r , G e o g r a p h y .
j'Pyfeüt$jQti.rrrRomcw:y 'Saxop, and tMordian
vtiiQ$g*$pbf-— Sijiorical Epb'ehs\ and Antiquities. '■
^ J p H>E‘ PhoeïriciansJ the moft aric ie riy eril rght en e d rijtidgritors, are generally
NallöwèéP to* diayécr'Jieén' thé -‘■firft difcorverérs ö ïpthé Britiih,
ïflands, and «t^, have ^tranfmitted their fame on tKfefpage 'd£ recorded
knowledge^ ThScharï e ^ B 'f u p p è ^ t i i a t th e name' ó f B rita in 'b flgm ktes
from a Fhoemeüan word ; an d another learned wj.itgr j uftly irifers,1 that
thé name' o f Cajjiterides, afterwards reïtxiétëd'to^tfiè'fftès 'oftScïliy, was
at ‘firft ex?êndéd‘td('6fêat Britain^ arid Ireland1. ’ 'This ifarrie^imjiliës ió
iherGiteek larigUagédfte iffiiidsdf tin f & a f^ i s 1ptfcri)^bl^',trdn'flated'from
fbraé fcör^ölp.Oflding .Phcfenrcian term.'' However this bë, 'fhe'appella-
ti'Offlsc of; Albion arid Britannia• are' aftérwards cöinmêmörated in Grecian
aod Rotóa;H geography the firft being probably IS nfened by the Celtic
or primeval inhabitants, th e latter by the Belgic colonies.; B ut etymological
.difquifitioris rare foreign to. the-prëfént prifpöfé.
The foutherii, mdftJoptflent, arid moft important division.of Britain^
has ever -finéè; the' days o f Bede, been dlftiriguiflied n n u 11 the Euro-
pean nations by-the-nanre ö£Anglia,aï England, well known to have" orl-
' Hoiet.Hi.ft. diiCbnri-et-de la N av. des Anciens, p. ry^, Renneli, Geog, o f Herodotus, j>. 4«j
;^OL- J* ’ D - ginat.ed
N am is .