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regulations respecting the seals caught near the islands by the 

 fishermen of Bambro; in a manuscript note by Thomas Lawson, 

 a monk of Durham ; and in a document written about the year 

 1690. In the following Table the names from these several 

 sources are given, along with those now in use. 



Most of these names are of Anglo-Saxon origin, and are 

 formed, as was usual with our forefathers, when giving names to 

 places, of a substantive and a definitive term ; carr and stan, 

 the Anglo-Saxon for ' rock/ and eland for ' islaiid,' occur in not 

 a few ; with these are combined the definitive terms staphel, sig- 

 nifying a pile or heap, descriptive of the piled- up rocks forming 

 the pinnacles or pillars on the south side of the Staphel ; cloven 

 or clofi/n, indicating the cleft condition of the rocks forming that 

 island ; lanff, crumb, and meg are archaic forms of * long,' 

 * crooked,' and * strong.' Scarph Car, now corrupted into Scar 

 Car, comes from an old German word signifying sharp or acute. 

 The Mere Carres, now called Swedman, are sea rocks covered 

 by the tides, and the Utt Carres are modernized into Out Carres, 

 which are not far from Monkshouse. The Wedumt, now cor- 

 rupted into Wideopens, are near to ihe Fame ; and the name 

 may have come from wedan, to rage, and may be descriptive of 



