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miraculous power of healing diseases, for I cannot find that he 

 was actually a leper. Near Killylour is a farm called Glenkill. 

 This may be the Glen of the Church, or possibly " kill " may be 

 "cuil," Celtic for a wood. 



Another ecclesiastical name is borne by the hill behind 

 Drumpark. It is called the Bishop's Forest, and formed part of 

 the lands of the Archbishopric of Glasgow. The gamekeeper's 

 house on Drumpark estate is called the Hall of the Forest, and a 

 small farm close to it bears the common Galloway name of the 

 Boreland — literally the Boardland — the farm which supplied pro- 

 visions or board to the Archbishop and followers when they came 

 down to Irongray to take their pleasure in the summer woods. 



There are several names for which I cannot find any explana- 

 tion. They are Bonerick, Margreig, Marglolly, Mallabay, 

 ai:d Drumclyer. I should be glad of any suggestions, provided 

 they are not from the French. The derivation of Scottish place 

 names from French is an amusing winter game, but not scientific 

 philology. 



A word must be said about the distribution of place names. 

 About 44 per cent, are Celtic, and 42 old English or Norse, the 

 remaining 14 per cent, are modern names like The Grove, Oak- 

 wood, Rosebank, Snuffhill, etc. In the more western parts of 

 Galloway the proportion of Celtic names increases. In Irongray, 

 alcng the Cairn valley, the Saxon names predominate; as one gets 

 b;;ck to the hills Celtic names predominate. Though it would not 

 be safe to take a farm on the strength of it having a Saxon name, 

 still the Saxons seem to have not only taken the rich lands along 

 the river, but so thoroughly appropriated them as to displace even 

 their old names. Our late president suggested to me that a study 

 of place names might help to mark the frontier of the old British 

 kingdom of Strathclyde. I have not been able to follow up the 

 suggestion, but at anyrate I think the frontier lav further east than 

 Irongray; we were well within the Celtic fringe. 



The Natural Regeneration of Forests. By Mr Frank 

 Scott, Forester, Comlongon. 



When a crop of timber has reached maturity and is to be 

 cleared and the ground to be restocked, a choice of methods may, 

 or may not, present itself. Under the very best climatic, soil, 



