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Roskearn, fearna, fhearna, an alder tree. 
Roster, tir, land. 
Rosevean, bhan, ban, white ; beagun, a little. 
Pol, a pool, mud, occurs in Poolvash in the Isle of Man; and such 
Trish names as Poolboy, Ballinfoyle, Pollrany ; and in such Scottish 
names as Polmont, Polldhu, Poltarff. 
The presence of Pol can readily be observed in such Cornish 
words as these : 
Polbrock, broc, a badger. 
Polcairn, carn, a heap. 
Poldew, dubh, black. 
Poldower, dobhair, water. 
Poldrissick, dreasach, thorny. 
Polhern, iarunn, iron. 
Polkillick, coilleach, a rooster. 
Pollick, leac, a flat-stone. 
Pollyne, linne, a pool. 
Polmellin, muileann, a mill. 
Lan. In his Cornish Dictionary, Williams remarks regarding 
Lan ‘‘that its primary meaning was a piece of ground enclosed for 
any purpose—an area to deposit anything in—a house, a yard, a 
churchyard.” In dealing with the Topography of Wales in a pre- 
vious paper, I endeavoured to prove on the authority of Dr, Joyce, 
_ that Jan or lann is a Gaelic word, and that it does not belong exclu- 
sively to the Cymry. Lan is often met in the topographical names 
of Cornwall, e.g. : 
Lanarth, ard, high. 
Lanaton, dun, a hillock. 
Lancarf, garbh, rough. 
Landare, darach, oak ; or doire, a thicket. 
Landenner, dun, a hillock ; ir sior, long. 
Landew, dubh, black. 
Caer, Gaelic Cathair, a city or fortified place, which is of fre- 
quent occurrence in the Topography of Ireland and Scotland, and to 
which a very remote origin must be assigned, appears in such Cor- 
nish names as :— 
Caer Laddon, leathan, broad. 
Carbean, ban, white ; or beagan, a little. 
Carcarick, carraig, a rock. ; 
