CHAPTER VIII.
HISTORICAL.
Old England .-- Not only our language but also very many of our political institutions we have inherited from England.

But the country now called by that name is not the real _old_ England.

The fatherland of the English race is the isthmus in the northern part of Germany which we now call Schleswig.

Here dwelt the old Angles or English.

To the north of them in Jutland was the tribe called the Jutes, and to the south of them, in what we now call Holstein and Friesland, dwelt the Saxons.