106 TEESDALE tLACE-lfAMEa. 



3. A glen, with steep overhanging braes or sides. 



4. The shaft of a coal pit, perhaps from its precipitous form. 



5. A hollow made in a quarry. 



It is doubtful whether the A.-S. word be the cognate of Icel. 

 haugr, haugi, coUis, tumulus." 



Mr. R. Carr-EUison says, on the other side, — 



"There is, I think, no reason to doubt that this termination 

 hoe or how is the same as our well-known northern word heugh. 

 This has passed into hoe or how when it has .entered into close 

 composition with a definite term placed before it, and has so 

 lost the safeguard of the tonic accentuation. The heughs are, 

 for the most part, those rugged outbreaks of rock, partially co- 

 vered with green sward, which show themselves in so many 

 parts of Northumberland, but more especially along the remark- 

 able line of basaltic rock which traverses the country from 

 south-west to north-east," Trans. Tyne Nat. Field Club, vol. i., 

 p. 346. 



See Cleugh, Clough, with nearly the same meaning as heugh. 



Perhaps the French Cap de la Hogue, near Cherbourg, has 

 taken its name from a hill there — it is in Normandy ; also The 

 Hill of Howth, near Dublin. 



Taylor says it is the old Norse haugr, a sepulchral hill, the 

 same word that appears in the haughs of Northumberland. 



Examples : — 



Gale Howes — ? from the Sweet Gale, Bog Myrtle, Myrica 

 Gale, used to put into beer, as Angelica archangelica was by the 

 Danes in England. 



Greenhow — green hill. In Domesday Book, Greenhow, in 

 Norfolk, is called Grene hoga, mons viridis. 



Hewits — ? from A.-S. hewt, heuef, high, head, id. q. Seafod, 

 head. Height 1808 feet. 



How — the hill. 



Howden Moss — ? moss or bog of the hollow dene. 



Howegill— gill of the hill, or hollow. 



Howgillrig — ploughed land or ridge at the gill of the hill. 



Iron Howe — ? hill or mine of iron, A.-S. iren; or of Ir or 

 Ear, Saxon god of war. 



