Land Holland

J.B.C. does not say in what part of England he finds this term used. Holland, in Lincolnshire, is by Ingulph called *Hoiland*, a name which has been thought to mean *hedgeland*, in allusion to the sea-walls or hedges by which it was preserved from inundation. Other etymologies have also been proposed. (See Gough's *Camden*, "Lincolnshire.") In Norfolk, however, the term *olland* is used, Forby tells us, for "arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years, q.d. *old-land*." In a Norfolk paper of few months since, in an advertisement of a ploughing match, I observe a prize is…