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gapes and receiueth into his mouth, neither is anything else . . . 
found in their bellies." 
And again, 6 " The master was confident in this and other places 
that the flood came from the West, which Baffin sayth by the 
floting of the ice hee observed on Land to be contrary : only the 
Islands cause by their diuers points, differing Sects (sic) and 
Eddie. Line 26 has plural Eddies" 
By the kindness of Dr. Murray, the principal editor of the 
Philological Society's New Dictionary, I am now able to quote, 
from the material sent to him, some forms of the word eddy, 
both simple and in combination, which will I think support the 
inference I wish to draw from the various forms of the name 
Eddystone. 
In 1627, Smith's Seamen's Grammar, ch. x. 46, speaks of a 
eddie-wind, and on 48 of an e<^'e-tide; while in 1626, W. Sandys, 
in his Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book v. p. 104, says : 
" When wellnigh tyrd ; a silent streame I found, 
All eddiless, perspicuous to the ground 
Through which, you euery pebble might have seen, 
And ran, as if it had no Riuer been." 
This form is exactly analogous to the Eddistone before quoted. 
Again, in 1627, Drayton, in his Agincourt and other Poems, 
p. 42, thus speaks : 
" Looke how you see a field of standing corne 
When some strong winde in Summer haps to blowe, 
At the full height, and ready to be shorne, 
Rising in waves, how it doth come and goe, 
Forward and backward, so the crowds are borne, 
Or as the Edie turneth in the flowe ; 
And above all, the Bills and Axes play 
As do the Attom's in the sunny ray." 
Between this last quoted form and the old Norse i^a, nothing 
has apparently hitherto been found ; but I venture to suggest 
that both the forms which r<5a would naturally develop into, are 
found in the prefix Ede, in the name Edestone as used by William 
of Worcester, and in that of Ide in the /^estone of the documents 
and maps, &c, of 1584, 1586, and 1590. 
In corroboration of my idea, I may mention that Dr. Murray 
6 Booke 8, ch. iii. § vii. line 12, &c. 
