And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Ver. 21. And he called the name of it Sitnah.] Of Satan; to hate deadly, as the devil doth. So the Preacher in his Travels a tells us of a place called, The mouth of hell. And we read of a country called, Terra del fuego. b Savoy, for the strait passages infested with thieves, was once called Malvoy; till a worthy adventurer cleared the coasts, and then it was called Salvoy, or Savoy, quasi salva via. c So, King Alfred, as he divided the kingdom into shires, so the subjects, in the several shires, into tens, or tithings; every of which should give bond for the good bearing of each other. The most ancient of the ten, was called the tithing man. And the kingdom was called Regnum Dei, and Albion, quasi Olbion, d happy; as Angli quasi Angeli; for that then a poor girl might safely travel with a bag of gold in her hand, and none durst meddle with her.
a Preach. Trav., p. 10.
b Heyl., Geog. 130.
c Ibid., 474
d Polyd., Virg.