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•Chryose, tigh an rois, the house of the foreland. 



Goille, the Gaelic term for wood, which eaters into such Scottish 

 mames as Killiecrankie, Killiemore, is discernible in such Cornish 

 words as : — 



Killiard, coille ard, high. 



Killignock, coille cnoc, a hill. 



Killigrew, coille garhh, rough. 



Killivor, coille, mhor, mor, large. 



Lios, a garden or entrenchment, which forms the first syllable of 

 Lismore in Scotland and Lisdoo, Lismoyle, Lismullin, in Ireland, ap- 

 pear in the Cornish names : 



Liskeard, lios gu h-ard. 



Lizard, the Cornish Chersonesus, lios, ard, high. 



Toll, a hole, belongs to the category of expressive Gaelic mono- 

 syllables, and is found in such Cornish words as : 



Tolcairn, toll cairn. 



Toldower, dobhar, water. 



Tolver, mor, large. 



Tolverne, bhuirn, burn, water. 



Forth, port, a harbour, is a Gaelic word of indispii table antiquity, 

 ;and is present in numerous (.vornish names, e. g. : 



Po7'th ennis, innis, an island. 



Forth glas, glas, grey. 



Forth lea, liath, hoary. 



Forth he, loch, a loch. 



Fortugal, port nan Gaidheal, the harbour of the Gaels, continues 

 to declare that the Gaels could not have been strangers in the far-off 

 ages in the south-west of Europe. 



Fort na curaich, in the island of lona, enables the traveller to 

 determine the exact locality where St. Columba first landed from the 

 coracle or wicker-boat covered with hides, that conveyed him from 

 Ireland. 



The citations which have been adduced from the Topography of 

 Cornwall furnish satisfactory evidence, that the substratum of that 

 Topography is Gaelic ; and that the conclusion may in all fairness 

 be drawn that Celts, whose language was Gaelic, had their home in 

 that portion of England before the Cymry had a distinctive exist- 

 ence in Britain, and long before the days of Arthur and the Knights 

 of the Round Table. 



