;jG Tlace Names. 



Ink, pink, sma' drink, 

 Het yill and brandy ; 

 Scud aboot the hay-stack 

 And you'll get sugar-candy. 



The man with the skinny coat in charge of the ferry-boat is 

 worth taking- a note of. Will he be very much prehistoric ? 



In conclusion, we have a few puzzles got from transferring 

 the accent, of which the best and widest known is the one : — 



In firtaris, 

 In oaknonis, 

 In mudecls is, 

 In claynone is. 



The only new one I have runs thus : — 



Leg-a-mouton, 

 Half-§,-gous, 

 Pastry- ven-1- son . 



Leg of mutton, half a goose, pastry venison. 



II. — Remarks on some of the Place Names of the Steivariry. By Mr 

 Fred. R. Coles, Coi\ Mem. S.A., Edinburgh. 



The proper study of the place names of any one county mig-ht 

 well occupy the leisure hours of a lengthy life. Like all other 

 sciences dependent upon the confluence of human interests with 

 the practical as well as the poetic phases of nature, this study 

 opens the doors of an almost unending vista, and one word alone 

 may become the " open sesame" to an investigation well nigh as 

 limitless as it is fascinating. A single name, a phrase, an epithet 

 of colour, a mere syllable of description, may cany the philologist 

 in a twinkling, thousands of miles away — the slight phonetic 

 change, e.^., of the letter M to V in such a place name as Milleur 

 conveys us at once from the Highlands of Scotland to the heart of 

 our Indian Empire, where Vellore has the same meaning, " grey 

 hill," Gael, meall odhar* 



Compai'isons of this sort, however tempting- to follow up and 

 multiply, are not the purpose or the goal at which my efforts are 

 in this communication directed. The risk of correct interpretation 



* .Johnstone's Place Xame>i of Srotland. 



