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world widely separated in space^ as well as by the circum- 

 stances of language, laws/ and manners. We have thus two 

 classes of synonymes, each of which is interesting in its own 

 way. 



1. Namtn Identical in meaning ^ for the same place. Dor- 

 Chester or Hydropolis (the town at the water) ; Mesopotamia 

 or Algesira (the country between the rivers) ; Baalbek or Heli- 

 opolis ; Alba Julia or Weissenberg (the white town) ; Kenbaan 

 or Whitehead ; Schwartz Wald or the Black Forest ; Helveticae 

 Aquae, Thermae, or Baden (the place of warm water or baths); 

 Hermanopolis or Hermannstadt (the town of Herman); Kara 

 Su or the Black Sea; Pons Episcopi or Pont VEveque 

 (the bishop's bridge); Insula Dei or Isle Dieu; Treffynon or 

 Holywell; Claromontium, Clarus Mons, Claromons or Cler- 

 mont; Intervalles, Intervallium, Entrevaux ; Sylva Herts- 

 genbosch, Sylva Ducis, Boscum Ducis, Bolduc, or Bois-le-Duc 

 (the Duke's wood); Album Monasterium, Blanc Minster, 

 Candida Ecclesia, Whiteminster, or Blondeville (the modern 

 Oswestry'^) ; Groes Oswallt (the cross of Oswald), Oswald's 

 Tree, or Oswestry."*^ 



2. Names identical in meanifig, for differe^^t places. 

 Oxford, Bosphorus. Snowdon, Sneafel, Snafield, Sneeveld, 

 Himmalaya, Sierra Nevada, Toldo de la Nieve, Snow Hill, 

 Niphates. Kesseldorf, Castletown, Trecastle. The White 

 Mountain, Mont Blanc, Dwalaghiri, Slievebawn, Penwin, 

 Sierra Blanca, Leukos, Monte Albauo. New Town, Villa 

 Nova, Villeneuve, Citta Nuova, Neapolis, Nyborg, Newton. 

 Entre Rios, Mesopotamia (or Algesira), Doab, the Fork, Delta, 

 Dwipa. Promontorium Album, Ras el Abiad, Kenbaan, 

 White Cape, Capo Bianco. Albe Kirk, Whitchurch, Eglwys- 

 wen, Albuquerque. 



The number of places possessing the same name or some 

 slight moditication of it, is often so great, that when an ex- 



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