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Touer 

 Doubs 

 Esla 



Garomne, Gaivr, siinft 

 Iser 



L'yonne, Icuana 

 Oise, Iscara, Uisge, water 

 Ousche, Oscara, Oiche, 

 water 



Loire, Liger 

 Marne, Matrona 

 Meuse, Mosa 

 Nantz, Nant, hrook 

 Neckar 

 Rhine, Rhen 

 Rhone, Rhodanus 

 Scheldt, Iscaldis, Snuadh, 

 river 



Saone 



Seine, Sequana 



Somme, Saonara 



Tagus, Taffe, rapid 



Tamaine 



Vienne 



Vannes 



Orvannes 



Vene 



Note B. 

 Any thing like a regular list of the examples from whence the above conclusions 

 are drawn, would of course be out of the question. But we annex a few. 



Islands and isolated places, where they have received Celtic names, usually retain 

 them. Ynis, in Welsh ; Inch, Insh, Ince, Ennis, in Erse, signify an island. 



The territorial divisions of the Britons were diminished, or otherwise altered, by 

 those who came after them ; and as new divisions required new names, the great 

 proportion of such names are not Celtic. In some cases, however, the name has 

 been retained, although the extent of territory included under it has been curtailed. 

 Thus wc have 



English. Latin, Celtic. 



Cornwall Cunovallus Kynvael 



Devon Uamnonia Danmonith 



Dorset Dwrgwr 



Kent Cant 



Strath Clyde 



For the preservation of the Celtic names of towns, as well as of other objects, we 

 are indebted in many cases to the Latin ; and where tlie etymology of the modern 

 form of a name is obscure, the Latin form usually will elucidate it. 



Thus Uisk or Uigg, water, the Latins preserved as Isca, but the Saxons seem to 



