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qui SOUS la forme de crag ou crage est usite en ce sens dans quel- 

 ques departements : — les cJiaumes de crage, d'une localite, pres 

 d'Angouleme." Littre. 



Examples : — 



Crag Grreen — a green place on or near a crag. 



Dow Crag — of the dove ; crag of the cushat or ring dove 

 (Columba Palumbus), called locally doo or dow. 



Green Crag — from its colour. 



Harton Crag — -of the hart. 



High Crag — from its elevation. 



Long Crag — from its length. 



Low Crag — ^from its position. 



Pallet Crag — " Pallat or pallet, a round flat thing, especially 

 a stone, such as a mill-stone, a grind-stone.- Mill-stones and 

 grind-stones were formerly quarried here ; hence Pallet-Crag = 

 Mill-stone or Grind-stone Crag." Bell. ' 



Crag Top. 



In Longstafie's Eichmondshire, p. 43, we find — " !Rear the 

 churchyard of Catterick is a large tumulus called Palet Hill 

 (quasi Mons Palatinus)." 



Ceoft. 



" A croft, a small enclosure or close, at one end whereof a 

 dwelling house, with a garth or kitchen garden, is usually placed ; 

 ab. A.-S. croft, agellulus. Croft, for any small field or enclosure 

 iu general, without any respect to a mansion house, is common 

 in all counties of England." Eay's Gloss, 



" Croft, a meadow near a house, a small common field, any 

 enclosure." Halliwell. 



" Croft, a field or appropriated land." Edmunds. 



According to Erockett, it is "a small enclosure attached to a 

 dwelling house, and used for pasture, tillage, or other purposes 

 — pure Saxon." 



Crofters — small cultivators in the North-west of Scotland and 

 in the Hebrides. 



" Crofting, the state of being successively cropped. Scotch. 



