INTRODUCTION. V 



Examples of the place-names in the district, whether 

 simple or combined, also arranged alphabetically, follow, with 

 such information regarding them added, as positive know- 

 ledge or plausible conjecture has been able to supply. 



Lastly, a statement of the nationality and origin of the 

 word is, in most cases, attempted to be given. 



A good deal of attention has been paid to local histories, 

 old records, and local pronunciation. The dictionaries laid 

 under contribution have of necessity been in continual de- 

 mand, as the famous process of the evolution of knowledge 

 from internal consciousness was at once found utterly to 

 fail. 



An Appendix has been found necessary owing to omissions 

 made at the commencement, and this is followed by Ad- 

 denda and Corrigenda, the former rendered necessary by the 

 acquisition of fresh information during the printing, the 

 latter owing to typographical errors. 



A List of Contractions used has been inserted at the end 

 of the introduction. 



The work has required much more time and labour, and 

 attained to much larger dimensions than was at its begin- 

 ning anticipated ; its compilation has been the occupation 

 of leisure hours for some years past. Although much care 

 has been exercised, the compiler is conscious that his work 

 must contain many errors both of omission and commission, 

 which he would gladly see corrected and condoned. 



A few of the names have proved to be refractory to his 

 analysis. The explanations of some may appear scanty and 

 unsatisfactory, whilst those of others may be deemed too 

 copious or even irrelevant, but endeavour has been made to 

 be as accurate as possible, and to avoid in some measure 

 the dryness of the bare dictionary form. After all, the work 

 is more a mere collection of words than worthy of the name 

 of a philological production. 



