THE TTNE, THE LOET BURlir^ THE SKEENE. 299 



XYI.— 7%e Tyne, The Lort Burn, The Sherne. By D. Embie- 

 TON, Esq., M.D. 



Oe these names the first is that of a river known all over the 

 world, through the talents and enterprise of the dwellers on its 

 banks ; the second is that of a watercourse, a tributary to the 

 Tyne, winding its deep, dark way under the streets of ISTewcastle ; 

 the third, a tributary to the Tees, is the small river running 

 past Darlington. 



It is interesting to us IS'orthumbrians to ascertain the deriva- 

 tion and import of these names, and the following attempts at 

 their elucidation are now submitted to the criticism of our two 

 Societies. 



I. Of the Tyije. 



In Great Britain there are two rivers of this name, one sepa- 

 rating part of Durham from Northumberland, the other, the Tyne 

 Water, in Scotland, which runs past Haddington, and falls into 

 the North Sea at Tyningham, a little to the north of Dunbar ; 

 in addition to these there is the Tynet burn, on the coast of 

 Banffshire. 



There are several places, including Tynemouth, in Great 

 Britain and Ireland, into the names of which Tyne or Tyn enters, 

 namely, Tyneham, at the south-west corner of the Isle of Pur- 

 beck ; two small places in Somerset called Tynings ; Tynedrum 

 or Tyendrum, in the parish of Killin, in Perthshire ; Tynron, in 

 Dumfriesshire; and Tynet, in Banffshire, at the mouth of the 

 Spey. 



It is doubtful whether Teignmouth and the Teign, in Devon, 

 Teynham, in Kent, and Tean, consisting of Tean and Upper 

 Tean, indicating a separation of parts, ra Staffordshire, should 

 be included in the same category with our Tyne. 



In Ireland there are Tynach, in Gal way, and Tynan, in 

 Armagh. 



The consideration of these doubtful names, from want of topo- 

 graphical information, is not here entered upon. 



