NOTES ON DTTLOE CIRCULAR ENCLOStJRB. 103 



6. There is no doubt that the term Lo, Loo, or Looe, is 



applied to the waters of two rivers and the tidal pool 

 which, being united, form most of the eastern, western, 

 and all the southern boundaries of this parish. 



7. As far as we have been able to discover, the only 

 features or objects from which the district could have 

 obtained its name of Duloe in ancient times, must either 

 have been its boundary Waters, or its prehistoric circle 

 of sepulchral Stones. 



8. These Stones, as we have shewn, may have excited 

 feelings of superstitious dread, their purpose having 

 been forgotten, and they may have been regarded as a 

 supernatural work, perhaps as a magical changing of 

 demons into stone, and if called "devils," — Dewolow, — 

 the country around may have acquired that name as the 

 Dewlow district, the region of the Devils' Ring. 



9. But if the Looe Water instead of the Stone Circle, gave 

 name to the land, we must seek a really probable solution 

 of Du as a prefix. Only a few such now remain to us, 

 and these are the following : — Dehou, south ; Dew, 

 two ; Dii, a neighbouring region. 



10. "Dehou-lo," ''South-pool'' has nothing to commend it 

 to acceptance, except that the tidal-lake is at the 

 southern extremity of the Parish. 



11. Since Dew (masc.) or Dui (fern.), signifies two, a pair, 

 a couple, and Lo, running lake- water, is masculine, 

 Dew-loe would signify the double-branched lake, or the 

 twin rivers forming it, viz. : the land of the two- 

 streamed Lake, or the Two-loes. 



This prefix Dew, the sign of the dual number, is of 

 frequent occurrence in Cornish, e.g. — dew-vrech, the two 

 arms ; dui-lof , the two hands ; dui-vron, the breasts ; 

 dui-glun, a pair of reins. 



If it be objected that the eastern of the two 

 bounding rivers is called the Looe, whilst the western 

 only is the Du-loe, we must observe that much of this 

 latter lies within the parish of Duloe, therefore whilst 

 the Looe-river, (Pool-river), takes name from its 



