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connection with the tidal lake which it helps to form, 

 the Duloe-river, may be called after the district or 

 parish across and by which it runs, or else its name 

 may mean " Looe-river, number-two." Moreover, not 

 far from its sources are places designated by such 

 names as signify twin- woods, &c., commencing with 

 Du, or Dou. 

 12. But it seems absurd for a tract of dry land to be called 

 river, rivers, or pool,* — whether Divine, black, south, or 

 double ! — common sense demanding that we should 

 find, in at least one portion of its name, some recognition 

 of it as terra-firma, — and this the prefix, Du, does yet 

 afford : — 



Du or Tu, in Cornish, is "a. side, a neighbouring 

 part or place " (as we noted before), and this is perhaps 

 the best derivative of any we have considered. It 

 enables us, — without any flights of fancy after Deities, 

 demons, blackness, hill, or tumuli, — to regard Du-loe 

 as signifying merely " Looe-side ;" Looe-land ; the 

 country abutting on the lake ; the shore of the Looe • 

 the region extending towards the Pool and towns called 

 Looe. 



Du, as a "part adjacent," suggests that which is 

 "juxta" to some particular spot. Elsewhere in Cornwall 

 we have ''Lanteglos-juxta-Camelford" and "Lanteglos- 

 juxta-Fowey ;" the one signifying the church-enclosure 

 near the ford of the river Camel, or near the town 

 named from it Camelford ; the other, the church- 

 enclosure near the river Fowey, or the town, or parish, 

 so called. Similarly Du-loe, in Cornish, will stand for 

 " fines- juxta-lacum," " partes-prope-amnes," " regio- 

 juxta-Looe," — the land or banks of the tidal lake and 

 its rivers; or, the Looe-neighbourhood, the region 

 near, or over against, Looe. According to this same 

 interpretation Looe-river means Pool-river ; and Duloe 

 river, the river of Pool-side, — the river that flows 

 within, as well as bounds, the parish named Duloe. 



* Notwithstanding this, there are Blackpool and Blackburn, in Lancashire; 

 Blackawton, in Devon ; Blackwater, in Hants ; Blackwell, in Derbyshire ; sundry 

 Blackfords, &c. ; and Pool, in Cornwall and elsewhere. 



