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breaks througli the earth." Richardson. And to this Home 

 Tooke agrees in the following passage : — 



" Underneath the gi-ound 



In a long hollow the clear spring is bound 

 Till on yon side where the mom's sun doth look 

 The struggling water breaks out in a brook." 



Beaumont Sf Fletchei'^s Faithful Shepherdess. 



3. Brocks. — " Brok, brock, hroh, Scotch, Fragments of any 

 kind, especially of meat. To hrok, or brock, to cut, crumble, or 

 fritter anything into shreds or small parcels." Jamieson. 



In Dut. and Fl. brok, is piece, bit, morsel, lump, fragments. 



Brocks, or Brucks, in Upper Teasdale, are passages broken 

 deeply through the peat of the hills to the subsoil or rock, in 

 some instances as much as six or seven feet in depth. On a hill 

 side they present an arborescent form, and serve in rainy weather 

 as water passages, in dry weather as paths. They are, in fact, 

 drains which have been naturally broken through the peat by 

 floods of rain. 



Examples : — 



Amgill Brocks — broken passages or drains of Arn's Gill. 



Mickle Fell Brocks— ditto of Mickle Fell. 



Mirgill Hearne Brocks — ditto of Miry Gill or Mary Gill. 

 ? Searrie. 



Breckholme =: badger's holme or river island. 



Brocker Gill — badger's or Brocker's (proper name) Gill. 



Brock Scar — scar of the badger or broken scar, 



Btjkg. Burt. Bttegh, Beogh. Beough. Boeotjgh, 

 Baeeow. Beeey, 



A.-S. bur (Lye), '■'■burh, hyri, {byrig, burig, datives of burh), 

 burgh, burcg, burhg, a berry, city, also town, fort, castle, court, 

 palace, house, fr. beorh, beorg, 1. a hill, mountain, 2. a rampart, 

 citadel, fortification, defence, refuge, 3. a heap, barrow, a heap 

 of stones, a place of burial. "What are now called cities were 

 anciently called burJis, we have also byrgan, byrgian, byrian, 

 burian, byrian, &c., to bury, raise a mound or bury." Bosworth, 



