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the bittern used to keep its abode. ]^esides many hills sacred to 

 trees and bushes, Crossmichael, very strikingly hilly as it is, out 

 (jf a total of 30 names has these — Broad Bonnet, Glede Hill. 

 Gibbet Hill, Kiln Hill, and Smithy Hill. In the parish of Urr are 

 the following unusual names — Common Hill, Cock'trice Hill, Shot 

 Hill, Fell Hill, Sour Hill, Corse Hill, and Holehouse Hill. In 

 liorgue, besides Doors Hill, are Fox-cover Hill and Harking Hill. 

 One is tempted to suppose these two latter closely connected, but 

 any information on this head is not sufficient to confirm the 

 assumption. One wonders how there comes to be an xingel Hill 

 (near Kirkcudbright) and an Angel Chapel many miles distant in 

 Irongray, where certain stony remains pass for the site of some 

 such building. Hei'ries' Slaughter is the terrific name of a height 

 near the county town also, and Silver Hill belongs to the same 

 locality. Kirkpatrick-Durham has 29 hills, of which the uncom- 

 nionest are Clench Hill, Tan Hill, Fleckit Hill, Butt Hill, Long- 

 berrie Hill, Gowkcairn Hill, Fair Hill, and Brownie Hill. 



Out of a total of 3G in Partou, White Hill occurs G times ; 

 and Cowcloot, Roundrigg, Ilurkledown, Box, Crow, and Eumples 

 are specific names euoug'h to show that there may yet be found 

 other and stranger sounding' names here. One such is to be found 

 in the New Statistical Account (vol. iv., p. 283). It is Cruckie 

 Height, a hill west of Mochrum Fell. Thornkip, as a special 

 name, is peculiar. It belongs to a hill in Colvend, where also 

 may be noted Eyes Ilill, Goat Hill, Hare Hill, Bow Hill, and 

 Castle Hill. Anwoth, with its almost pure Scandinavian name, 

 is not specially rich in names of Hills. Trusty's Hill offers the 

 most captivating- bait to the unwary philologist, and you will 

 lind the results of painful research about sundry early Pictish 

 kings, Drush or Drostan, or Ti'ostan, recorded here and there. I 

 am ready to yield any little allegiance I ever paid to this theory, 

 because I have it on good authority that in a cottag-e between 

 Cardoness Castle and the Fort on the Hill not so many years ago, 

 lived a man of the name of Trusty. From the frequency of 

 his solitary pilgrimages to the hill, that locality became in the 

 course of years among the country folk " Trusty's Hill." An 

 explanation equally simple and, if you will, unromantic can be 

 given of the name Castramont, on the Girthon side of the river 

 Fleet. As, however, discussions of this nature necessarily open 



