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Dr. "WTiitaker's theory is preferable. The Greta has a very- 

 rocky bed, as I have seen, but I have never heard that its water 

 gives out a "wailing sound, if it does, it must be a very peculiar 

 stream. 



The river Greta is alone as an example in Teesdale, but there 

 is a Greta in Lancashire which falls into the Lune See ea or a- 



Geoove. Ghaft. 



"Icel. grafa, (Ulph. graban-=.a-KaiTT€Lv; A.-S. g.rafan, I^orth 

 Engl, to grave ; Ger. graben ; Sw. grafwa; Dan. grave)^ to dig; 

 grafa grof, to dig a grave." Cleasby. 



'' Suio-Goth. grafwa, sculpere ; C. B. crafu, to scrape ; A.-S. 

 grafan ; Al. graban ; Gall, graver ; Belg. graven ; Angl. grave, 

 engrave; Gr. ypdcjieiv, to write. 2. Cavare. 3. Scrobem in terra 

 effodere, to dig a grave, &c. Cfraf grift, from Gr. kpvtttt], fovea ; 

 Ant. graf ; A.-S. graf. id. Al. grab, crap, grauua, Gr. ypaf3a 

 fioOpov, h. e. foveam. Hesychius. Any fosse, specially a grave. 



" Grop, fovea, caverna; "Ulph. grolo, fovea ; A.-S. graf, grc^p, 

 grcepe ; Al. gruolo, Tcruopo. "Wachter thinks that the CEolic Gr. 

 Xr]pctl3bs, a cave of wild beasts, as well as the Latin scrois, the 

 letter s being added to crois, are cognate with the above. To 

 these he would have added the Ger. gruft, but would rather 

 refer it to the Gr, Kpv-KT-q, Lat. crypta. The root is Suio-Goth- 

 grafwa, TJlf. gralan, just as from fodiendo fovea gets its name. 



Grufwa, fovea, fodina ; TJlph. grolo ; Al. gruolo, gruopo; Icel. 

 grifia ; Ger. grule, a grafwa fodere, hinc gullgrufwa, fodina aurea, 

 silficergrufwa, fovea argentea." Ihre. 



A.-S. grafan, to grave, engrave, carve, dig, Bosw.. {grcef, graf, 

 a grave. Lye), also gral, a grave, grof, greft, a thing carved; Sw 

 grufva, lergverh, mina, a mine : grafva, undergrafva, to dig, delve, 

 sink. 



Dan. grule, liergvarh, pit, hole, ditch, mine, grave, under- 

 grade, to dig, to mine ; Ger. grule, lergwerh, mine, id. ; also 

 gralen, ditch, moat, trench, canal, and grulen and gralen, to 

 mine, to dig ; Dut. groeve, furrow, pit, quarry, groeven, to groove, 

 and gra/ven, to dig, delve. Graf, a grave, tomb. 



