172 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Ger. schneut%en, a snot, mucus quod a snut, rostrum, metaphori- 

 cally used for cleansing a candle from the snulE ; snyta IJusety 

 emungere lucernam, to snuff tlie light." Ihre. 



Allied to snout is snite snipe, snape, long-beaked birds. 



Example : — 



Cauldron Snout. 



"Here the Tees is seen, rushing for 200 feet down a declivity 

 in the basalt, in the curious cataract called Cauldron Snout. It 

 is not one great fall, but a succession of small ones." Handbook 

 of Durh. and North., 1873. 



The Wheel or Weel is a long smooth tract of water above 

 the Snout, and through it tumbles down, as the Handbook just 

 cited states. See "Wheel. 



Hutchinson, Hist, of Durh., vol. iii., p. 280, says there is "a 

 place called Cauldron Snout, from its being the mouth of a long 

 canal, and on a sudden pours itself out over a succession of 

 shelves and falls for the space of several hundred yards through 

 a deep opening or gully in the rocks." 



"There is a Cauldron Lin, in County Kinross, Scotland." 

 Supplem. Jamieson's Diet. 



SoKEOwrtJL Hill. 



One of the farms of Layton Manor, and owes its name to the 

 following occurrence : — 



A man of means, once upon a time long ago, got the idea fixed 

 in his mind that on that farm was a large quantity of copper 

 under ground somewhere. He took the farm, and very soon 

 began to dig for the metal or its ore. He opened out trenches 

 in various parts, but could not find any ; he persevered until he 

 had spent all his money. ITot being at all satisfied, though he 

 must have been much disappointed, he mortgaged his other pro- 

 perty, and went on digging ; traces of his works can be seen at 

 the present time. Finally, he spent a second time all he had, 

 but no copper rewarded his labours, and he departed a sadder, if 

 not a wiser, man. 



After this transaction the farm took its present name. — 



