46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
So unmistakable is the Gaelic complexion of Torr, and so com 
monly is it to be found in the Topography of Ireland and Scotland, 
that were other evidences altogether wanting, the constant occurrence 
of it in the names of places in and around Dartmoor and elsewhere 
in Devonshire, might furnish a strong argument in favour of the con- 
tention, that Celts who spoke Gaelic must have occupied that part of 
England for some time at least during the early settlement of 
Britain. Were it to be maintained that Dart in Dartmoor is the 
Gaelic word tart, thirst or drought, a striking correspondence would 
be found between the very name and the sterile character of that 
region. Moor, the latter syllable of Dartmoor, bears a close resem- 
blance to mor, the Gaelic adjective for great or extensive. Thus 
interpreted, Dartmoor would signify the extensive drought. Nor can 
there be any difficulty in seeing how Dart, the principal river which 
issues from Dartmoor, and to which I have already assigned the 
derivation doit, would bear the name of the region in which it 
rises, in spite of the incongruity that may attach to applying to any 
river of considerable magnitude a name that is indicative of drought 
or scantiness of water. 
Crockern Torr is the name of a hill in the centre of Dartmoor, 
where the legislative business of the tin mines of Devonshire used 
to be transacted. Crockern Torr, cnoc air an Torr, the hill on the 
heap. The name is purely Gaelic, and the well-known word enoc 
occurs in it. 
In Torquay, Torcross, the word torr is present. Other names of 
places in Devonshire are of Gaelic origin, ¢.9. : 
Carnmere, carn, a heap or pile of stones. Kenton, ceann, head ; 
dun, a hillock. Hamoaze, camus, chamus, a harbour ; Culbone, cul, 
back ; beinn, a hill. 
Beer, bior, water. 
Ness, an eas, cascade. 
Exbourne : uisge, water: burn, water. In such words as Cud- 
leigh, Leigh, Chumleigh—, liath, grey or hoary appears. 
The Topography of Devon, in spite of all the political changes that 
have passed over that county, and in spite of the different races 
that have inhabited it, preserves unmistakable reminiscences of 
Gaelic-speaking Celts, who must have been its earliest inhabitants of 
any permanence. 
