94 NATURE AND MAN IN THE FORTH VALLEY. 
names are all Gaelic; on the left bank they are mixed: 
Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon. There are, no doubt, some 
exceptions, but not many. 
A number of the place names are ecclesiastical in their 
origin, or are derived from the old saints who exercised so 
large an influence on the dawning civilisation of early 
Scotland. Examples of such are Inchmahome, St Colme’s 
Glen (on Leckie Estate), and Inch Colme, named after Saint 
Colme or Columba, St Ninians after the saint of that name, 
and Kilbryde and St Bride’s after St Bridget. Kilmadock 
and Kildean, Manuel and Abbotshaugh, Corscaplie and 
Boquhapple in our district, and Gleneagles and Ecclesmachan 
just beyond it, have all an evident ecclesiastical origin. 
CONCLUSION. 
I may perhaps be expected to give some hints as to how 
Sir John Murray’s scheme is to be carried out. It is always 
easier to state a problem than to solve it, to set a task than 
to do it, and I confess that I am not able to formulate any 
well-thought-out plan. I feel that I have taken too much 
upon myself in coming here to speak at all. I would, how- 
ever, make four suggestions which occur to me, although I 
know that in doing so I am simply stating the obvious :— 
(1) The records of previous observers should be collated as a 
basis for further progress ; (2) the assistance of local observers 
in all parts of the district should, where possible, be obtained ; 
(3) the camera should be freely used: a good photograph is 
worth pages of description; and (4) do not be in too great a 
hurry to reach final results. 
