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known as Dousborougsh. This the ancient British inhabi- 
tants would have called Dıinas ;—a word which, standing 
by itself, means pre-eminently “the fortification ” of.the 
distriet ; a distinetion which Dousborough might well 
claim, alike from its situation and its extent. Dousborough 
and Danesborough Itake to be a corruption of Dinas, or 
Duns-borough ; the latter part being a Saxon addition 
made by a people ignorant of the meaning of its original 
name. The encampment on Hamdon Hill I believe to 
have had originally the same name, and to have been 
simply Dun, “ the fortified place” of that neighbourhood. 
When the hamlet underneath became of sufficient im- 
portance, in Saxon times, to require a name, the Saxon 
inhabitants called it Ham-Dun—the hamlet nigh to the 
Dun. 
Westward of the Quantocks we have the same word 
Dun occurring in DuNSTER, which is no other, I conceive, 
than Dun-ystrap— “the fort in the vale.” Ystrad, 
in Welsh, is applied to the flat or bottom, formed by 
the course of a river. The propriety of such a descrip- 
tive name as Dun-Ystrad, no one, I think, can doubt, 
who has stood upon the brow of Grabhurst Hill, and looked 
down upon Dunster Castle. CUNNEGAR tower surmounts 
another stronghold, standing between the castle and the 
sea. This would be appropriately called Cyn-GAER— 
the “ foremost” fortification—the GAER in advance. 
Going on a little farther west, we come to LuccorTT 
Hill, with the GREY-wooD, literally (in Welsh) LLwyp- 
COED, skirting its base, and stretching up its sides. 
Through this wood flows a rapid, impetuous stream, 
truly British in character, and in name : the Horner; 
CHWERN-DDWR ; which, in the Celtic, denotes the 
“whirling” and “wrangling” with which its “ waters” 
