Place Xames. j-g 



adjoinino, tabl. will be found the order in w],ioh, aneordin^ to 

 frer(uency, these prefixes occur :— f4 i 



Knock ... 120 times. j^e^ 



Hill ... los 



Craig- ... 107 



Drum ... 104 



Bar ... r.fi 



•34 times, 

 'nil ... 27 



Mul ... 2^, 



Auchen 2 1 



Tor ... 17 



r>al ... 12 times. 



In the names descriptive of hills non-Gaelic in origin theaffi.es 

 or suffixes a.. 7i,„., Cli,,, Crai,, Dr.,., Gain, miU Knou., .v'^ 



1^. ;''■ •?, T '' """'^^ '^^"^'^^ «'^^" «b--daess to guess 

 tha the epithet HiU is by far the most frequent ; but I think eve' 

 a student of hills in hilly Scotland will be surprised to hear tha 

 there are actually 480 heights called hills in this one dist ct 

 Summarised, this group stands thus :— 



Hill ... 480 times. H,ae ... 20 times. 



Knowe ... nc, .. xick ... i^ 



''!■«'§• ••• «- .. Clint ... n ;; 



"^ '■■ ^'- •• ^rum and Gairy, .1 times each. 



For our present purpose it should be enough to close our classi- 

 ■cation here, and look a little more closely into the seeni g y 

 labyrinthine contours and trends of our hills alone 



As one would expect, the prefix Ben is given to only the 

 h.ghe.sts«.„auts; with the one notable exception of 17. .IW 

 which, being the highest hill south of the Firth of Forth yet i not' 

 d.gn.fied by the specific title. Some of the other Bens p'rope h "o 

 named are Benbrack, Bennan, Beninner, Benvellary, Be^'! iL^ 

 Ben-nie-loan, Ben-neeve. Benfadyeon. Ben-meal, J n.hie Ben" 

 ower, Ben.,arg_all of them in the really highland parts of' ^Z 

 phairn. Minmgaff, Dairy, Kells, and Girthon. The m^dle disti ■ 

 a.e void of Bei. on the whole; but Ben G..y, iu ^ ^ ^ 

 Hen Gairn and Ben Tuther. in Rerwick, are examples much ai-ther 

 southwards. Ben Ian and :\reikle and Little U.n, "'^'^''^' 

 Anwoth. "'^ l^ennan occur in 



Minnigaff ,s the home of the hills whose prefix-epithet is 

 -«. or sonie variant of it; as ..,., Millmore. M^lldown e u 



^'^^^^^'\ ^'"'^ '^^^ four:-Milldow'n,S-' 

 fire Mdlgea. Mdlminnoch; ^fnltaggart occurs in Kirkm.breck • 

 Milldown and MuUabeg in Irongr.iy ; Mull of R... i,. n^Z' 



