26 Transactions. 



Glcncapcl, the horse's glen. 



Glenmuckloch, the glen of the herd of swine. 



Some places were named from different appearances of 



shade or color, as if by way of contrast with each other. 



As : — Glenbuie, yellow glen. 



Glendorch, dark glen. 



Glenglas, green glen. 



Glenleith, gray glen. 



Places named from certain peculiarities of shape, or form, 



or position, &c. 



As : — Glendyne, the deep glen. 



Polmeur, the large hole. 



Duneen (hill), little hill.* 



Carnine, little heap.' 



Knockangalie, the hag's hill. 



T • 1 1 fa nook, or corner, or angle, at a pool, or 



Lmcluden, •< ir j x 



( gull, or deep water. 



Dairy means the King's district, or division, or territory. 

 We have a great many of those DaVs, such as Dalswinton, 

 Dalmellington, &c., and dal properly signifies posterity, or 

 descent by blood, but in an enlarged and figurative sense it 

 signifies a district, i.e., the division or part allotted to such 

 posterity, and thus General Vallancey and other antiquarian 

 scholars define it ; but it means also an assembly, a plain, a 

 field, &c., but all these other meanings are coincident with 

 the general meaning, as they all imply ownership, or clan- 

 ship of some sort or other. 



Cam Sallack is a complete misnomer, it means a heap of 

 dirt or a dirty heap, but it is not that, and never was ; how- 

 ever we have frequently heard it called Garan Salach by the 

 country people, and that is its proper name. It is derived 

 from garan, a thicket or underwood ; or from garran, a grove 

 or wood ; and from saileach (pronounced Salach), common 

 willow, mountain osier, salix caprea. 



* It is not the hill that is little, but the Dun or fort that is placed on it — 

 " een" is a mark of diminution. 



