Sentence:  The dwellers in those mountain regions, along with the greater part of the lowland population, we call by a Latin name "Germans," as if we had first learned about them by reading Cæsar's commentaries. One can see how the popular name "<WSD>Dutchland</WSD>" would naturally remain associated especially with that bit of shore with which our forefathers had most to do. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.