56 Puack NAMEs. 
Ink, pink, sma’ drink, 
Het yill and brandy ; 
Scud aboot the hay-stack 
And you'll get sugar-candy. 
The man with the skinny coat in charge of the ferry-boat is 
worth taking a note of. Will he be very much prehistoric ? 
In conclusion, we have a few puzzles got from transferring 
the accent, of which the best and widest known is the one :— 
In firtaris, 
In oaknonis, 
In mudeels is, 
In claynone is. 
The only new one I have runs thus :— 
Leg-4-mouton, 
Half-4-gous, 
Pastry-ven-i-son. 
Leg of mutton, half a goose, pastry venison. 
Il.— Remarks on some of the Place Names of the Stewartry. By Mr 
FRED. R. Coues, Cor. Mem. §.A., Edinburgh. 
The proper study of the place names of any one county might 
well occupy the leisure hours of a lengthy life. Like all other 
sciences dependent upon the confluence of human interests with 
the practical as well as the poetic phases of nature, this study 
opens the doors of an almost unending vista, and one word alone 
may become the “ open sesame” to an investigation well nigh as 
limitless as it is fascinating. <A single name, a phrase, an epithet 
of colour, a mere syllable of description, may carry the philologist 
in a twinkling, thousands of miles away—the slight phonetic 
change, e.g., of the letter M to V in such a place name as Milleur 
conveys us at once from the Highlands of Scotland to the heart of 
our Indian Empire, where Vellore has the same meaning, ‘‘ grey 
hill,” Gael. meall odhav.* 
Comparisons of this sort, however tempting to follow up and 
multiply, are not the purpose or the goal at which my efforts are 
in this communication directed. The risk of correct interpretation 
* Johnstone’s Place Names of Scotland. 
