APPENDIX. 



BY THE AMERICAN EDITOB. 



NOTE A. 

 THE "CoNEYGAa" AND "LODGE FAKM," p. 11. 



IT is one of the pleasing characteristics of an old and 

 highly civilized country, that appropriate local names for 

 the smaller hamlets, farms, and single rural dwellings, are 

 in general and familiar use. Every thing which gives to 

 the household home, whether of rich or poor, a pleasant 

 distinctive character, an additional hold on the memory 

 and the affections of its inmates, must always prove a 

 merit ; and many, assuredly, have been the instances in 

 which the familiar name of the family roof has continued 

 through life a hallowed sound to the wanderers of the 

 household band it once sheltered. In England, this cus- 

 tom so natural, so kindly, when undisturbed by preten- 

 sion is very general, and it is almost needless to say 

 that wherever these names go back for half a century or 

 more, they are always appropriate, and often peculiar, or 

 it may be, interesting from historical or other associations. 

 In very many instances, not only do the farm-house and 

 the cottage bear suitable names, but even the different 

 fields about them are all marked in the same way ; this 

 meadow, ihat grain-field, yonder copse, the knoll beyond, 

 shall each be called by some simple term, familiar to the 

 household of the farmer of the present day, as it waa 

 perhaps to his forefathers of past generations, 

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