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also here another Thingwall, of similar origin and site to the 

 one just described in Lancashire. 



I have now completed, however imperfectly, this short and 

 necessarily very slight notice of this interesting subject. 

 Instead of a single paper, volumes might be written upon it. 

 I am convinced that, if the principles set forth by Mr. 

 Kemble, and attempted to be illustrated in this paper, were 

 carefully studied and applied, very valuable light would be 

 thrown on the early Saxon history of England. Let any one 

 take a good county map, on a tolerably large scale, and trace 

 out and mark the situations of the places whose names end in 

 den, hurst, shaw, wood, holt, dell, moor — let him then, within 

 the limit or circumference thus described, separate the names 

 with patronymics attached, either simple or compounded, and 

 finally classify the names ending in haw,, ton, wick, sted, 

 hoTough, worth — ^marking the relative position of those com- 

 l)ounded with north, south, east, west, high, low, etc. The Dan- 

 ish terminations hy, ness, wald, should be separated and marked 

 by themselves ; and any Celtic names, whether of places, or 

 hills, valleys, and rivers, should be also kept separate. The 

 results would be often found curious and valuable. The 

 examination would be still more interesting and instructive, if 

 a pilgrimage were made, staff in hand, to inspect the places 

 themselves, amidst the green fields, the sunny meadows, the 

 ancient woods, and wild heaths of our beautiful England. 

 The ancient records of our Manor Courts, if accessible, would 

 doubtless, contain much information which might be turned 

 to account. 



Dr. D. P. Thomson then closed his paper on the Ijqw 

 of Storms. 



[This paper has been published elsewhere.— Ed.] 



