The remaining three-fourths are German; and from the extent of the kingdom and the irregularity of its outline, four out of the six divisions of the old Germanic populations may have been contained in it. From the Ems to the Elbe, extended to an undetermined distance inland, the ancient tribes were the Chauci and Frisii, who were _Frisians_. Embden is the capital of East Friesland, where the Frisian language was general until the seventeenth century, and where, in one or two localities, it is still spoken at the present moment. A line drawn from the Dutch district of Drenthe to the Hartz would pass through the country of the _Old_ Saxons; one from Hamburg to Minden, through that of the _Anglo_-Saxons. The Longobardi, Chatti, and Cherusci, some portions of whom, whether High or Low, were _Dutch_, extended towards the Hartz. Soon after this the Slavonic area began. _Oldenburg._--Undoubtedly Frisian in its northern, Oldenburg was either Frisian or Old Saxon in its southern, parts. _Holland._--If the Dutch of Holland be the indigenous dialect of any part of that country, it is only so for the southern third of it. The _Frisians_ are the oldest occupants. _Hesse-Cassel_, _Hesse-Darmstadt_, and _Nassau_, the two former, the localities of the _Chatti_, take us from the Saxons and Frisians to the true Dutch or Germans. At present their language is High German. Probably, it was so at the beginning. I do not, however, pretend to say where the Low-Dutch form of speech originated. It has encroached upon the Frisian and Saxon; and, in all the parts where it is now spoken, with the exception, perhaps, of the parts below Cologne, is of foreign origin. On the other hand, however, the High German of Franconia, Suabia, and Bavaria has encroached on it.