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the sense of " landed property." Through the tendency to get at 

 a sense perforce, "St. Peter's eye," i. e. island, on the Thames, has 

 become world-wide renowned as " Battersea." The same tendency 

 here in Toronto turns our "Bathurst-street" (vulgarly and even in 

 a printed advertisement,) into " Batters street."-^The river E-apidan, 

 famous in the late United-States troubles, sounding as if it con- 

 tained -dan-, the element noticeable in En-dan -us, Dan-uhe, Don, 

 and other river-names, is nothing more than Bapid Ann, a name 

 commemorative of the good English queen. 



Our own Atiticosti is a French vernacularized form of the aborigi- 

 nal name, Nantiscotec. Ha-ha bay, perhaps, expresses surprise ; like 

 the term, ha-ha hedge. It is a singular sinus, or side-loop of the 

 River Saguenay ; which, at a first visit, might easily be taken for the 

 main stream. (The native name is given, but without interpretation, 

 as HesJcnewasIca. That of the Saguenay, also, Fitchitanichetz.) In 

 the French maps it is marked Bar/e des Ha. 



A curious vernacularism, in regard to an English proper name, may 

 here be mentioned, although already well-known. It occurs on a 

 monument in the Cathedral of Florence, placed there in honour of an 

 Englishman eulogized under the name of Acutus. It commemorates, 

 however, no member of the numerous family of Sharps, as at first 

 sight would be imagined ; but, Sir John HawJcioood, a valiant con- 

 dottiere of the 14th century. "Ilawkwood" presenting difficulties to 

 the Italian organs, it was conveniently vernacularized into a good 

 native sound, conveying a good native sense — Acut-o ; and so, incised 

 on marble, it has descended to posterity. In like manner, the name 

 of Sir John Hawkins, a naval hero in the time of Elizabeth, better 

 satisfied the Spaniards when they had reduced it to the Hellenic-look- 

 ing Achines. Vide Froude's " Eeign of Elizabeth," where (p. 107) 

 see, also, the remarkable expression, " the queen-dolphin's title," used 

 of Mary of Scotland, as (up to the death of her father-in-law, Henry 

 II.) dauphiness of France. Bauphin, in the French language, was a 

 term so conventional that it startles us to see it in plain English. 

 Like the names borne by our heraldic pursuivants, rouge-croix, rouge- 

 dragon, port-cullis, &c., and somewhat like the mythic "Pen-dragon" 

 of the era of Arthur, dauphin was a name accruing from a cognisance 

 or crest, borne first by the Counts of Vienne ; and then, after the 

 transfer of their rights to the Kings of France (1343), by the imme- 

 diate heir to the French throne. There are authorities who contend 



