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sepulchres. Their* names do not indicate whether they were or 

 not. 



A funeral urn containing ashes, Sir Eichard Vyvyan has 

 stated, was found in the Halligey Cave. Another writer informs 

 us that the place was called the Catacombs,f but it can only have 

 been in modern times that such a name was applied to it. Inter- 

 ments have been discovered in other Fogous also. Such 

 subterranean chambers, if disused for other purposes, would be 

 convenient burial places, and therefors were occasionally used 

 as such ; but the paucity of sepulchral indications compared 

 with the great extent of the caves discourages the idea that 

 they were in the first instance intended for tombs. 



Another guess respecting them has been hazarded to the effect 

 that perhaps smugglers built the Fogous. The Celtic remains 

 found in them dispose .at once of such a theory. But supposing 

 that these remains had not been found, surely none could believe 

 that such a formidable work as the Halligey Cave, 140 feet in 

 total run, would have been undertaken by them. The great 

 labor and publicity attending the digging and building of such 

 a place would have deprived it of all chance of subsequent con- 

 cealment from the authorities. 



Smugglers no doubt constructed places in which to hide their 

 contraband goods, but not on such a scale as this. Although 

 they availed themselves of caves in the cliffs, and may have used 

 the Fogous, they could not have been their builders. These stone 

 galleries belonged to a people of much earlier time. 



We may, I think, conclude that the Halligey Cave is an 

 ancient store-house or hiding-place made by the Britons within 

 fortified ground. It is much to be regretted that the urn, ashes, 

 cup, and bones of deer (?) discovered in it, have been lost sight 



*The names of localities require separate consideration. The following is the 

 general tei'ui, which gives no clue as to the special object for which these places 

 were constructed : — 



Fogou, Vouga, Googoo, Hugo, Oogo, Ogou, Pou, Vou, Vau, — a cave. 

 Dr. Borlase translated Fogou " a hiding-place, a den or cave ;" deriving it from 

 fod, a place, and govea, to lie hid. Williams, in his Cornu-Brit : Lexicon, has 

 given fo, a flight or retreat, and gow, false, deceitful, hidden. Fo-gow would thus 

 signify a concealed refuge, a hidden retreat, so disguised externally as to deceive 

 an enemy ; the false or misleading appearance of the ground averting discovery. 



fMr. Polsue, in History of Cornwall. Lake, Truro, vol. 3, p. 281. 



