48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
The names of the streams and rivers of Cornwall are to a large 
extent Gaelic, e.g. :— 
Tamar, tabh, water ; mor, large. 
Camel, cam, crooked ; heyl, twil, flood. 
Alan, geal, white ; an, river, Gealan. There is a river of the same 
name, Allan, in three counties in Scotland. 
Lynher, linne, pool ; hir sior, long. 
Looe, loch, or lwath, swift. 
Fal, foil, gentle ; fal, a circle. 
Bude, buidhe (7), yellow. 
Inny, innis, an island ; or inne, a bowel. 
Cober, cobhar, froth. 
Kensey, ceannsa, mild, gentle. 
Hayle, sal, shanl, salt water. 
Hone, amhainn, rivers. 
It is quite evident that into the names which have been now 
adduced purely Gaelic roots enter—roots which appear very often in 
the Topography of Ireland and Scotland. The slight examination 
that I have made of the names of the rivers of Damnonia will 
tend to exemplify the correctness of the remarks which Lhuyd 
makes in the Welsh preface to his Archeologia Britannica ; ‘There 
is no name anciently more common on rivers than Uysk, which the 
Romans wrote /sca and Osca, and yet, as I have elsewhere observed, 
retained in English in the several names of Ask, Hsk, Usk, and Ea, 
Axe, Ox, &c. Now, although there be a considerable river of that 
name in Wales and another in Devon, yet the signification of the 
word is not understood either in our language or in Cornish ; neither 
is it less vain to look for it in the British of Wales, Cornwall, or 
Armoric Britain than it would be to search for Avon, which is a 
name of some of the rivers of England, in English. The significa- 
tion of the word in Guydeleg (i. e., Gaelic) is water. * * * So 
do the words uisge, Loch, Ban, Drum, &c., make it manifest that the 
Guydhelod (i.e., the Gaels) formerly fixed their abode in those 
places.” 
Carn, which is eminently a Gaelic word, occurs often in thie 
Topography of Cornwall. Carn is one of the most expressive mono- 
syllables that are to be found in the poems of Ossian. As Cairn it 
is commonly used in the English language. Co narh cuireadh clach’n 
a charn, is a Gaelic proverb of very ancient date. 
