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298 Britain, and took possession of our Isle for himself and his descendants. As he did so he declared: Here I stand, and here I rest,

And this place shall be called Totnes!" But now let us turn from boundaries indicated by marks to those artificially erected enclosing the entire claim. Such are our hedges, dykes, and walls. The hedge in many parts of England and in Scotland is a small privet or thorn division between fields, or dividing a field from the road. To a Northerner, to speak of a bank six or ten feet high with trees on the top as a hedge, is held to be a misappropriation of terms. A hedge, according to him, is only a line of quickset eighteen inches or two feet high; a bank of earth dividing fields is a dyke. But then in Ireland a dyke is both a bank and a ditch. In fact, hedge is derived from the same source as the Latin ager, and the Norse akr, and our acre; and signifies earth cast up, either by the plough or the spade, either in tilling or in banking. This is the meaning the Sanskrit akara has; and in Latin, ager