The Churn or Berothai of the East is perpet_ nated at Chun. (trombech) Bolam Bum Newcastle on Tyneyba Kedar Chedar may be repeated at Cheddar Somerset the dark passage through the nocks being picturesquely describul by that name. on Loch Lomond Portland 372 Edon in Cumberland Lur or Luss dram in Notts Bochin in Cornwall compe with ass Lennor in Cormoale with gas Shincan of Genxi. 2 It is written Sennaur by Sistions the Micbesian see Universal Hist. Nic p.142 neither is it probable that the coincidences should be purely imaginary. The identity of such names as the following can scarcely be all of them accidental or capricious, e. g. :— The Hamath, n, of Scripture finds a corresponding locality at Hamath, in Gloucestershire, while Ararathill is within a few miles of the same. The Aven, 7, of Ezekiel and Hosea is repeated at Aven and Aven-ing, in Gloucestershire, Aven in Wilts., &c. Beth shemesh On or Aven Nebo,, is repeated in Wilts. Ur, Hor, and Hur,, are repeated at Awre and Horfield in Gloucestershire. Lilley,, occurs in Hertfordshire and elsewhere. Beor and Beer, , occur in Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hants., and Somerset. Tamar,, occurs in Cornwall. Hai, or Ai, y, is represented at Hay, in Brecon, and Hay, in Gloucestershire; perhaps Haigh, Lancashire, &c., and Eye, Suffolk, Hereford, and Northamptonshire. Abram,, occurs in Lancashire, at Wigan, in Maker-field. Elam, by, occurs at Elham, in Kent. Mara,, is found at Mara-Zion, in Cornwall. Gilboa and Bel appear in Wilts. Sidon Hill in Hampshire. Meon,, is represented in Hampshire in three instances. Meon Mean or Asher, or Esher, W, is repeated at Esher, Surrey. Calneh,, seems to have a ditto at Calne, in Wilts. Ham,, occurs in Kent, Surrey, Wilts., Essex, Somerset, &c. Baal-peor, by, seems to crop out at Bel-per a. And a large list might be added. The Babylonian name of Ashbi (Ashby) is represented in twenty places or more in Britain; while one of the chief Babylonian cities, Orech, the modern Warka, (Arabic, Irak,) finds its phonetic representatives in York and Warwick b. The same name, too, is found in the Celtic part of France. And we must not forget that the phonetic and radical expressions are to be looked at in these cases, and must be taken to regulate our decisions, rather than any similarity or dissimilarity of modern spelling, which is quite as capricious and has undergone as many changes as ever the Oriental names have done. с a I am aware that different etymons have been attempted for Belper, but, I think, without success. b Modern places in England having such names as Beulah, Bethany, Bethel, Salem, carry with them their own explanations as to the grounds for which they were given, and may be considered as totally distinct from these ancient names of townships, which were evidently the aboriginal appellations of those places. e When the author finds his own name written after no less than fifty different ways in the registers and records of Wales and Gloucestershire, and no less than six different ways in one will, (that of William Lysons, in 1618, preserved at the diocesan registry at Gloucester,) it may readily induce him to disregard spelling as any index of etymology. Nay, spelling is so entirely a conventional matter of modern days that no etymological conjectures can be safely founded upon it alone. The verses appended to the title-page of this work, being a quotation from the panels of Place-house, Fowey, Cornwall, shew either how entirely spelling was disregarded in former times, or more probably was pur "His name is variously given in the original Aranyah, Ha-avarnak, Haornah, Araunate and Orman" Stanby Lectures on the History of the Javistellmach Part II. /. 133. Johviakin is also called Jeconish (onink and The Honorable Mom Byng when governor of a presiding in India was desirous that the natives should give him his full title in him, they could make ん no their Humble Bumble Bang |