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small speckled lake, probably from its abounding in trout ; Loch- 

 fergus, from Loch-Feargus, or Fergus' lake ; Lochdow, from Loch- 

 duhh, the black lake. Lag and Lagan, which signify a hollow, 

 and a small hollow, are also general, often singly, and occasion- 

 ally as a prefix ; Laganorry, from Lagan-airidh, the hollow of the 

 shealing ; Laggan-Mallan, from Lagan-mhuillin, the hollow of 

 the mill. Mon is an English contraction of the Gaelic Monadh, 

 which means a hill ; Minniedow, from Monadh-dubh, the black 

 hill ; Minnibuie, from 3fonadh-buidhe, the yellow or auburn hill ; 

 Muncraig, from Monadh-creag, the rocky hill. Ton; which means 

 a conical hill, is used singly as Tor, and Torrs, and as a prefix — 

 Tormanie, from l^orr-oia-monaidh, the conical hill of the mountainj 

 Torrorie, iromTorr-airidh, the conical hill of the shealing. The 

 ijext on the list is the prefix Fol, from the Gaelic Poll, which 

 means a pool ; Pulcree, from PoU-crioch, the boundary pool ; 

 Pohnadie, from Poll-madaidh, the wolf's pool ; Polvaddock, from 

 Poll-feadog, the plover's pool. The English words Rie and Arie 

 are from the Gaelic words Rttighe and Aridli, signify a shealing, 

 that is, the place of the summer pasture, also a dwelling at these 

 during the summer season ; Benaire, from Beinoi-airidh, the 

 shealing of the mountain ; Clauchrie, from Cloiche-ruigk, the 

 stony summer pasture ; Largirie, from Learg-airidh, the 

 summer pastures of the hill-side. Having thus given local 

 examples of the above Gaelic prefixes, we will now turn 

 to the Saxon suJ9H.xes, where it will be found that those which 

 occur most frequently denote an enclosure of some kind, 

 something hedged, walled in, or protected, which prove how 

 intensely the Saxon race was imbued with the principles of the 

 sacred nature of property, and how eager every man was to 

 possess some spot he could call his own, and guard from the 

 intrusion of every other man. Those universally recurring 

 terminations, ton, ham, hay, burgh, yard, garth, park, croft, and 

 field, all convey the notion of inclosure, or protection, of which 

 the following are local examples: — Chapleton, Edingham, Auchen- 

 hay, Di'yburgh, Clonyard, Fairgirty, Gledpark, Coopercroft, 

 and Broadfield. There are over fifty places in the Stewartry 

 having the suffix ton, which signifies a place surrounded by a 

 hedge, or rudely fortified by a palisade. It becomes like the 

 Gaelic Ach, a sort of test word, by which we are able to trace 

 the localities where the Saxon intruders first settled among a 

 hostile and alien race. Those places called Garleton and Borland 



