64 PLAcE NAMES. 
the bittern used to keep its abode. Besides many hills sacred to 
trees and bushes, Crossmichael, very strikingly hilly as it is, out 
of a total of 30 names has these-—-Broad Bonnet, Glede Hill, 
Gibbet Hill, Kiln Hill, and Smithy Hill. In the parish of Urr are 
the following unusual names—Common Hill, Cock’trice Hill, Shot 
Tull, Fell Hill, Sour Hill, Corse Hill, and Holehouse Hill. In 
Borgue, besides Doors Hill, are F’ox-cover Hill and Harking Hill. 
One is tempted to suppose these two latter closely connected, but 
any information on this head is not sufficient to confirm the 
assumption. One wonders how there comes to be an Angel Hill 
(near Kirkcudbright) and an Angel Chapel many miles distant in 
Irongray, where certain stony remains pass for the site of some 
such building. Herries’ Slaughter is the terrific name of a height 
near the county town also, and Silver Hill belongs to the same 
locality. Kirkpatrick-Durham has 29 hills, of which the uncom- 
monest are Cleuch Hill, Tan Hill, Fleckit Hill, Butt Hill, Long- 
berrie Hill, Gowkcairn Hill, Fair Hill, and Brownie Hill. 
Out of a total of 36 in Parton, White Hill occurs 6 times ; 
and Cowcloot, Roundrige, Hurkledown, Box, Crow, and Rumples 
are specific names enough to show that there may yet be found 
other and stranger sounding names here. One such is to be found 
in the New Statistical Account (vol. iv., p. 283). It is Cruckie 
Height, a hill west of Mochrum Fell. Thornkip, as a special 
name, is peculiar. It belongs to a hill in Colvend, where also 
may be noted Ryes Hill, Goat Hill, Hare Hill, Bow Hill, and 
Castle Hill. Anwoth, with its almost pure Scandinavian name, 
is not specially rich in names of Hills. Trusty’s Hill offers the 
most captivating bait to the unwary philologist, and you will 
find the results of painful research about sundry early Pictish — 
kings, Drush or Drostan, or Trostan, recorded here and there. I 
am ready to yield any little allegiance I ever paid to this theory, 
because I have it on good authority that in a cottage between 
Cardoness Castle and the Fort on the Hill not so many years ago, 
lived a man of the name of Trusty. From the frequency of 
his solitary pilgrimages to the hill, that locality became in the 
course of years among the country folk ‘“ Trusty’s Hill.” An 
explanation equally simple and, if you will, unromantic can be 
given of the name Castramont, on the Girthon side of the river 
Fleet. As, however, discussions of this nature necessarily open 
