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adjoining table will be found the order in which, according to 
frequency, these prefixes occur :— 
Knock ... 120 times. Ben =. 384 times: 
Hill LOS ae OT eee ae ae 
Cratos. OG) mee Malone) 
Wren Gee | NOLEN Anchen | 329 
Bar i GGrs Chopra teamed Phe 
Dal ae 12 times. 
In the names descriptive of hills non-Gaelic in origin the affixes 
or suffixes are Brae, Clint, Craig, Drum, Gatry, Tlill, Knowe, Nick, 
and fg. Of these, it would demand small shrewdness to guess 
that the epithet H7// is by far the most frequent ; but I think even 
a student of hills in hilly Scotland will be surprised to hear that 
there are actually 480 heights called hills in this one district. 
Summarised, this group stands thus :— 
Hill = 480) times. Brae Vee OMbimMes: 
SOME ban IG Nick cant aD 
Crain, 6S) «5 Clint att oy lees 
Rig ahs Lets a8 Drum and Gairy, 5 times each. 
For our present purpose it should be enough to close our classi- 
fication here, and look a little more closely into the seemingly 
labyrinthine contours and trends of our hills alone. 
As one would expect, the prefix Ben is given to only the 
highest summits ; with the one notable exception of Zhe Merrick, 
which, being the highest hill south of the Firth of Forth, yet is not 
dignified by the specific title. Some of the other Bens properly so 
named are Benbrack, Bennan, Beninner, Benyellary, Benguinea, 
Ben-nie-loan, Ben-neeve, Benfadyeon, Ben-meal, Benghie, Ben- 
ower, Benjarg—all of them in the really highland parts of Cars- 
phairn, Minnigaff, Dalry, Kells, and Girthon. The middle districts 
are void of Bens on the whole; but Ben Gray, in Twynholm, and 
Ben Gairn and Ben Tuther, in Rerwick, are examples much farther 
southwards. ben Jan and Meikle and Little Bennan occur in 
Anwoth. 
Minnigaff is the home of the hills whose prefix-epithet is 
meal, or some variant of it; as ey., Millmore, Milldown, Meaul, 
Mulgarvie, Mullachjeny. Kells supplies four :—Milldown, Mill- 
fire, Millgea, Millminnoch ; Multaggart occurs in Kirkmabreck ; 
Milldown and Mullabeg in Irongray ; Mull of Ross in Borgue ; 
