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.Leafhoue. The fact of the larger of them having served 
as dwellings has led to confusion being made between the 
plural name horns, which is descriptive of them as bury- 
ing-places, with the English word house, which is descriptive 
of a dwelling-place. 
Should this word houes afford a sufficiently reasonable 
explanation of the second element in Glass House, there 
will then be some warrant for expecting that some such 
word as cladh, a word of Celtic origin, and meaning a 
mound or tumulus, will sufficiently explain the second 
element Glass : so that, finally, the name Glasfe House 
may be regaided as a euphonised form of clcidh-hciuQ, a 
kind of Celtic-Norse compound, meaning a burial-mound. 
This seems a better view to take of the name than 
the one in which it has been made to appear as meaning 
“ glass palaces,’’ or, according to some, “ glass furnaces. 
Crystal palaces had not come into use in Cook s time, and 
though he may have in some industrial quarter of a seaport 
town set eye upon furnaces for making glass, yet it is not 
likely that, whilst the upstanding hillocks of his native 
moors familiar to him from boyhood had never left his 
memory, he would be thinking of some pent-up furnaces 
seen by him in some smoky town, when searching his memoiy 
for a name for the wonderful hills that met his gaze as he 
was entering Moreton Bay. 
The mere mention of the name of Cook’s birth-place, 
Marton, should make anyone instantly to see the uttei 
impossibility of there being any other name from vhich 
more appropriately to derive the name Moreton Bay. 
There is a point specially to be noted in this connec- 
tion, and that is, that in the chart and in the text of the 
“ Voyages,” differences occur in the spelling of the proper 
names. On the chart which accompanies Vol. III., 
edition 1773, the entries are: Glass Houses ’’—three of 
them,— and ‘‘Glass House Bay”; “Cape Morton” and 
“ Morton Bay,” whilst the last name appears in p. 514 
of the text as “ Moreton’ s Bay.” These diCerences in the 
spelling may have occurred through the diiierences of 
opinion that existed then and exist now as to the quality 
of the vowel a in the name Marton. 
An examination on similar lines of the name of Cleve- 
land in Moreton Bay might lead to the discovery of some 
jioint of connection between it also and Cook’s country. 
