TOPOGRAPHICAL ETYMOLOGY. 73 
Che application nf hilology te 
Archwologienl Innentigatiun, 
— 
BY REV. WM. ARTHUR JONES, M.A, 
— 
T is always interesting, and, I would add, though it 
may not be so regarded in this utilitarian age, even 
profitable, to mark the remains and to trace the footsteps 
of the various tribes which, in byegone ages, have succes- 
sively oceupied the land in which we dwell. The associa- 
tions which thus gather around the localities the eye 
becomes familiar with in our daily walks, greatly enhance 
the pleasure and the profit arising from the contemplation 
ofthe scenery around us ; and welive, for a time, not only 
in the present, but in the past ; while, to the mind’s eye, 
the mountain and the dell become peopled again by their 
ancient inhabitants. 
In almost every distriet in Great Britain, and especially 
in the West of England, we meet with many undoubted 
remains of our primz»val ancestors, the ancient Britons, 
which have survived the destroying power of time, and 
continue, to the present day, striking monuments of the 
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