180 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



in some cases synonymous with Tarn, and so a Tarn and a Carr 

 may closely resemble each, other. 



Examples : — 



Gasgill T. — ?from gasen, gtesen, A.-S., rare, dear; barren, 

 deficient, wanting. Barren gill tarn. 



Great Eundale T. — ?r?m, A.-S., a rune (or council), letter, 

 magical character. Tarn of the magic dale. It drains into 

 Maize beck and the Tees. 



Little Eundale T. — mystery; council {Riin, dal, A.-S., coun- 

 cil, dale, tarn, or lakelet. Bell). It drains down the Pennine 

 slope to the Eden. Howse. 



Seamore T. — the sea or tarn of the mor, A.-S., moor or heath, 

 or sea, mere, tarn, each meaning a small lake ! It has no visi- 

 ble outlet ; it lies between the two Eundale tarns. 



Tarn Dub — deep place in a tarn. 



Tarn Gill — gill extending to or from a tarn. 



Tarn House — house near a tarn. 



The Tees. 



"Written also Taise, Teisa, Tese, These, in Symeon of Durham, 

 vol. i., Surt. Soc, and These, Hollingshead, also Tuise,.Tise. 



Dr. Whitaker, in his justly celebrated History of Eichmond- 

 shire, vol. i., p. 9, treating of the derivation of the name of this 

 river, has the following passage: — "Though Baxter's etymology 

 of the word is fanciful and unsatisfactory I have nothing better 

 to offer; — est autem Britanniarum lingua Tuise, sive Tise, ad- 

 jecta litera praepositiva idem quod Ise vel Uise, quod est aquse 

 tractus." 



Perhaps no better etymology can be discovered than Baxter's. 

 The Celtic words nearest to ise, uise, and to ouse, also a very com- 

 mon name for a river in England, are Wei. gwy and uisge, water, 

 in Irish and Gaelic, and next is the Manx ushtey. 



The litera praepositiva is the t of the definite article the. 



In Teesdale, and throughout the greater part of Durham and 

 Yorkshire, the country people — the natives — (in common with 

 the inhabitants of certain parts of Scandinavia, whence their 



