of Portsmouth the men of the parts so-called." I say that such a sentence might be written, might pass as a fact, and whether fact or not, would contain an argument so legitimate as to stand against nine hundred and ninety-nine objections out of a thousand. Yet the thousandth might set it aside, since certain facts might have been overlooked. What if the name of an original Indian tribe had been Jersey (or some name like it), or Portsmouth, or Plymouth? The chances, I admit, are against such an occurrence. But what if it really happened? It cannot be denied that it would materially shake the inference. Nay more, however much that inference took the guise of a tradition or record, it would shake the statement of the author who made it, however unexceptionable. Still the doctrine might be correct, and not only correct, but capable of having its correctness demonstrated. Let the name in question be the one last mentioned--New Jersey. Let the Old Jersey people of England be like those of Plymouth, but different from them in some definite characteristics. Let those characteristics re-appear in the New Jersey men of America. In such a case, the exceptions taken to the statement from the present existence of an aboriginal Indian population called _Nujersi_ (for such we will suppose the name to be) would fall to the ground. But what if no ethnological acuteness, no etymological sagacity, no minute analysis of names, traditions, or dialect had ever succeeded in detecting such _differentiæ_, so that, despite of the endeavours of learned antiquarians, the men of New Jersey could not be shewn to differ from those of Plymouth and Portsmouth, whilst all the while the _Old_ Jersey men did so differ. In such a case the objection that was originally taken from the previous name of the Indian tribe would stand valid. _Mutatis mutandis_, this applies to Beda's statement concerning the Jutes--the statement being as follows:--"Advenerant autem de tribus Germaniæ populis fortioribus, id est _Saxonibus_, _Anglis_, _Jutis_. De _Jutarum_ origine sunt _Cantuarii_ et _Vectuarii_, hoc est ea gens, quæ Vectam tenet insulam, et ea, quæ usque hodie in provincia Occidentalium Saxonum _Jutarum_ natio nominatur, posita contra ipsam insulam Vectam. De _Saxonibus_, id est ea regione, quæ nunc antiquorum Saxonum cognominatur, venere _Orientales Saxones_, _Meridiani Saxones_, _Occidui Saxones_. Porro de _Anglis_, hoc est de illa patria, quæ Angulus dicitur et ab eo tempore usque hodie manere desertus inter provincias Jutarum et Saxonum perhibetur, _Orientales Angli_, _Mediterranei Angli_, _Mercii_, tota _Nordhumbrorum_ progenies, id est illarum gentium, quæ ad boream Humbri fluminis inhabitant, ceterique Anglorum populi sunt orti."--Beda 1, 15. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes occurred within comparatively narrow limits in Great Britain, and, within equally narrow limits, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes occurred in Northern Germany and Denmark.