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lliL! pir//,IinL;' uaiinj .Scliuolkuo\v<_' ; c [ually puz/^liiig is College 

 (ilon iuid (JoUeye Hill, nearly 1200 ft. above sea level, in Dairy. 

 Manifestly these words are not our modern words "school" and 

 •• college," any more than is the latter found in College Lynn in 

 Carsphairn. This last is a very line linn indeed ; and, when in 

 spate, the liver Ken must come roaring- and routing through this 

 rocky channel in magnificent style. Now thei'e is the Gaelic 

 adjective, •' coiUaidfieas/i," which, I suggest with the utmost diffi- 

 dence, might have been the original of the ephitet pronounced by 

 the Lowland shepherd as something like " college," and which the 

 English surveyor wrote down ''college" as being the nearest 

 approach he could make phonetically. 



As hinted above, it is impossible in the present paper to do 

 more than skirt the fringes of a vast subject. The tabulation of 

 even the Gaelic hill names alone would occupy more space than 

 might be expected. A few notes upon the names of hills that are 

 not Gaelic may fitly close these lemarks. Take the generic term 

 ••Hill" to begin witli. Out of the total of 480 localities thus 

 named, the district now called Balmaclellan yields 80 of itself. 

 This sub-divided gives 15 Whitehills, .3 Millhills, Gowkthorn Hill 

 (•2), Redhill (2), Crof Hill (2), Belt Hill (2), Bar Hill (2), Brown, 

 (hey, Blue, Green, and Roan Hill (1 of each), a Low Hill and a 

 High Hill, an Abbey Hill, a Court. Hill, a Sheil Hill, a House 

 Hill, a Well Hill, and a Step Hill, a Dam Hill, a Moat Hill, an 

 Orchard Hill, and a Byre Hill, Crooks Hill, Spring Hill, Trip Hill, 

 Bere Hill, Clay Hill, and Burntland Hill, a Tod Hdl, and a Ewe 

 Hill, a Stey Hill, and a Shaw Hill, Ree Hill, Blacknest Hill, a 

 Halfmark Hill, and a Dear Hill, and others havings the specific 

 quaUfications of Souter's, David's, Thornie, Seg, Hog, Drum, Gibbs', 

 Mid, Scar, Peat, Fairy, Loch, and Cairney. Tt is doubtful where 

 Blowplain Hill should be ranked, probably as a much inverted 

 Anglicised form of some lost Gaelic name. I may remark, in 

 pas-sing, that Cairney Hill, Thorny Hill, Shiel Hill, and Hill with 

 some colour-epithet are nmch the most frequent appellations. 

 Tippet Hill, Gibbon (which is the name of a rock near Castle 

 Muir), Dead Horse (part of the ground at the foot of 2\^etherlaw 

 (jrlen), Farhills, Flat Hill, and two heights called Old Man arc 

 very peculiar names found in Berwick. Summer Hill occurs in 

 Balmag'hie, and also Jiutter Lump, which, however, has nothing to 

 do with dairy produce, but probably indicates u spot near which 



