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In Cornwall such words exist as : 



Garn hrea, hriadha, beautiful. 



Cam heaJc, heag, small. 



Cam-clog, clach, cloiche, a stone. 



Cam Pendower, pen ceann head, dohhar, water. 



Cam voel, mhaol, maol, bare. 



Cam leshez, leua, loisgidh, burning. 



Carnglos, glas, grey. 



Cam meal, mil, meala, honey. 



Carn Torh, tore, a boar. 



Carn Enys, Innis, an island. 



Cnoc is found in svich words as : 



Crocadon, cnoc, dun, a hillock. 



Crockard, cnoc ard, high. 



Carraig, which, along with carn and cnoc and dun, may fairly 

 claim to be regarded as a representative Gaelic word, and which con- 

 stantly occurs in the Topography of Scotland and Ireland, is present 

 in such names as these : 



Carrick gloose, carraig glas, grey. 



Carradon, dun, a hillock. 



Caregroyne, ron, a seal. 



Cardew, duhh, black. 



Careg Tol, toll, a hole. 



Cardrew, doire, a thicket ; Druidh, a Druid. 



Dun, a hillock or fortress ; Cornish, Din, occur in such words as : 



Dunbar, harr, a top. 



Dunsley, sliahh, a mountain. 



Dunster, tir, land. 



Dunmear, mear, joyful ; mor, large. 



Tintagel, Tin, dun, castle; diogel{Qovnx^h.), secure. The first 

 syllable is very similar to dun or din. 



Tiadhan is a Gaelic word that signifies a little hill ; dioghailt in 

 Gaelic signifies revenge. Gaelic roots are thus discernible in 

 Tintagel, which is supposed to have been the birth-place and principal 

 residence of the famous Arthur. Borlase says regarding it " that it 

 was a product of the rudest times before the Cornish Britons had 

 learned from the Romans anything of the art of war." So doleful 

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