214 ANCIENT NAMES OF THE BAYS, ETC. 



1,509. — Sauquet. — B. Br., sau, elevated or hard ; quet = simply Fr., 

 gue, passage. 



1,510.— Cat's Bay. 



1,511. — Herfey.— E. Possibly a Kel. term. Br., herv, green. 



1,512.— Vaux Tremblieres.— B. Vaux, pi. of val, Talley. See 1,424, 



1,444. 

 1,513.— Latunes.—E. Perhaps 0. Fr., lastee, blow, or struck. 

 1,514. — CorbletS— P.B. Br., cor, point, W., cor., point, dwarf. Br., 



bled, stone; pleg, bend; plega, to bend "W., plyg, double, fold. Com. 



lia.t. f plico. &k.,pleko. Sp , plega r. Heb., palac, flexible, pliable. 

 1,515.— Platte.— E. See 1,433. 

 1,516.— Boutier.—E. 

 1,517.— Allen's Point. 

 1,518.— Chateaux.— E. 



1,519.— Chateaux a l'Etoe. — P. Otherwise spelt "aletoc." There is an 

 old Kel. word toe, which means " sharp, sudden sound." See 224, 247. 



1,520— Les Boues briees.— E. " "Reddish, variegated rocks." Br., 

 briheenn, breiz, bris, breth, brith, pied, speckled. W., brith, braith, varie- 

 gated, dappled. Britho, to variegate. See " Bretagne Uset, 1,064." 

 However, O. Fr., brie, noise, tumult, struggling. 



1,521. — Grois Ledge. — Two meanings are applicable, "Sunburnt" or 

 "middle." Br., creiz, craiz, greo, middle. W., yngres, yncres, middle or 

 among. Com. Ii\, cri, heart. Br., groez, grouez or groes, fire. W., gwres, 

 heat, warmth. 



1,522.— Lion's Head.-P. 



1,523.— Citta de Barri. — E. The name of a vessel that touched this rock. 

 1,524. — La Donnette. — B.E. Br., clown, deep; douna, dounea, to deepen. 



Ir., debt, deep. 

 1,525. — Baie de Saie or ) Br., sahe, sale, top, crest. Sahez, scicz, sdez,sehaz. 

 Saye. ) W., saeth. Heb., hheth, arrow. Com. Lat,, sa- 



gitta. Ir., seid Sp., saeta. It., saetta. O. Fr., sagette, sayette. 

 1,526.— Homet des Pies.— N. Fr., hornet, isle, holm. See 1,500, 1,508. 

 1,527.— Aiguillons (Ledge).— See 29. 

 1,528. — Bibette. — P.B. Perhaps der. from Br. bivet, biicic, living. 



THE CASKETS, OETACH, AND BUEHOTJ GBOUP. 



1,529.— Pommier Banks.— Perhaps " difficult passage." These two ex- 

 tensive and dangerous groups of sunken rocks lie on the Western side of 

 the Ortac channel and are divided by a narrow 12 fathoms channel. 

 See 1,424. 



1,530.— Les CasquetS.— E. English sailors call this "the cascades." In 

 connection with this meaning com. the following note from Metivier's 

 Diet,, " Casus rupes, et son represent ant francais Casquet, indique l'ecueil, 

 le rocher de la chute des eaux, en anglais nautique Overfall Sock, all em. 

 Wasser-fall. La ressemblance de plusieurs autres Casquels inscrits sur la 

 carte aux alentours du Calvados pourrait confirmer 1' explication que 

 voici. Casus rupes, aujourd'hui Casquet, vient du Lat. casicare, ou casare, 

 tomber incessamment, selon Plaute, ang., "to tumble, to reel." Ce casare 

 est, en effet, l'origine approuvee, moyennant le diminutif casicare, d'ou 

 Pit. cascare, et le fr. cascade, chute d'eau perpetuelle. On sait d'ailleurs 

 que le cascaret, cet araas d'eaux qui refoulant celle de la Garonne a son 

 embouchure, engloutit quelquefois taut de freles embarcations est un 

 mot derive delameme source romane." Com. It., cascata. According to 

 " Channel Islands' Pilot," these rocks are so named on account of their 



