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sands, in the mountainous districts of Westmore- 
land and Cumberland, no such name is to be met 
with—the Cumbrian Welsh, then holding that 
region in their possession—and the names of 
places verifying, by their true derivations, the 
early history of these districts. And though we 
have stated that terminations in ‘ing’ were com- 
mon in the Old Norse and Danish dialects, we 
nevertheless, find few, if any, throughout the 
immense numbers of ‘“ bies”’ in Yorkshire and the 
counties already quoted, appended to names in 
‘ing’ either as denoting family settlers, or local 
characters; because, such a termination in these 
tongues, was generally applied as before men- 
tioned, to personal traits, or animal and vital 
peculiarities. We thus learn, by our present 
subject, that though the Danes formed settlements 
on the sea coast of this county—either fixed, as 
in the names already given, or temporary, during 
their predatory incursions—they never gained a 
general footing in it, this its dialect shows. While 
the dialects, where Danish names abound, still par- 
take of a Danish character, as perchance, if in 
accordance with the feelings of the members of 
this institution, I may take some future opportu- 
nity of demonstrating, by comparison and refer- 
ence to authorities before them. 
