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that the conductors of the Survey have preserved the established names, rather 

 than inventing new ones, following our learned antiquarians into obscurity. 



I am aware of the difficulty of obtaining local names from the inhabitants of a 

 district, they are sometimes reserved in speaking out ; but if you find a party of 

 Fox-hunters enjoying themselves, that is the time to obtain the local pronunciation 

 of names of mountain rocks. As to spelling, in reports of Fox-hunting, we find 

 great Oukrigg, and Hookriggs. In some districts, the termination crag is pronounced 

 as crig, so in the map, it is How Crags. From infancy to manhood, my every-day 

 prospect, from the Scroggs, where I was born, was Weatherlam and the twin Carrs, 

 with the Old Man just peeping over the shoulder of the former. The Carrs we 

 found to be higher than Weatherlam by the clouds first touching them ; and when 

 a cloud settled upon the Carrs it was generally the forerunner of a shower coromenc- 

 ing in Greenburn. One of these was the Great Car, and the other situated between 

 that and Weatherlam, at the junction of Prison band and Swirl band, with the 

 top of Broadslack, being nearly equal in height to the Old Man, and wanting a 

 name, I should call it High Carr. These, with the Little Carr, Mr. Green in his 

 assiduously compiled guide calls the Langdale Carrs ; and Black Scar with How 

 Crags he calls the Coniston Carrs. 



The word Carr I take to be synonymous with Scar, which I formerly defined 

 as an escarpment or range of rock ; I cannot now tell how I got the word ; but I 

 have since found that Mr. Richardson, in Wordsworth's guide, had adopted it. In 

 Westmorland we have Flammar Scar, Orton Scar, Nab Scar, Scout Scar, Whit- 

 barrow Scar : I do not know why we double the r in Carr, any more than in Scar, 

 or the g in Crag. I should write Little Car, Great Car, High Car in the singular, 

 and in plural the Carrs. 



In some districts the termination crag is pronounced as crig ; so Long Crag is 

 made into Lankrigg, and How Crags is converted into Hookriggs. An artist that 

 I employed to make a sketch for me, imitating the pronunciation, wrote it Great 

 Oukrigg. 



I should write Great How Crag, Little How Crag, and plural How Crags. 

 Much has been said of the derivation of the name "Old Man," which had been 

 originally applied to the pile of stones on the summit, and has since been extended 

 to the mountain itself ; but if I bad to speak of climbing the old man, I should 

 rather think to the old man a more correct expression. With respect to Hen Crag 

 and Hen Tor I have little to say ; we called it Hen Teah : I suppose from a fancied 

 resemblance to the toes of a Hen's foot, and Mr. Green intending as an improvement, 

 wrote it Enfoot Crag. 



Doe Crag, as wrote in the map, is pronounced Dow Crag, and Mr. Gibson, 

 author of "The Old Man," a neat and entertaining volume, writes it Dow or Dhu 

 Crags. 



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