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pride and gratification to you as it is to us to say that we have for 
our President the Ex-Governor of Canada, now Viceroy of India. 
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APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
Dr. Campbell, of Calne, has favoured me with the following 
original suggestions as to the derivation of the name of Calne and 
a few other places in the neighbourhood. 
1.—Catne. 
Catyz is probably derived from two Gaelic words, and signifies a 
“narrow stream,” to distinguish it from ¢he stream or 
Avon into which it flows above Chippenham, 
Caol—narrow ; amhain=a stream or river. 
Gaara oe ser ee =Calavon—Calaan or Calain=Calne. 
Mh, in Gaelic,=v or f, and a of avon is pronounced as a in bah. 
2,.— CALSTONE. 
CALSTONE, a narrow ditch, is likewise derived from the Gaelic 
Calstaing=Calstone, the narrow ditch, or stream, 
Caol= narrow whose waters join the Marden or Calne a few 
Staing=ditch yards below the waterworks and which separates 
Mr. Maundrell’s farm from Mr. Spackman’s. 
Calstone is situated on it, and it is the marked feature as 
you come to it. 
A “staing,” or ditch, serves in many parts of the moors 
of Scotland as a boundary or “ march” between two farms 
or properties. 
3.—AVEBURY. 
Avesury, or Aurebury, as in Doomsday Book, is derived from a 
Gaelic word, and means “ place of worship.” 
<page beimen xe Aurebury=place for worship. 
Aoraidh is the Gaelic for the act of worship, and is itself 
derived from the Latin oro, orare, to pray. 
The dh is silent, 
