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120 THE HISTORYsentclergy's dues; which acts are so many andthat the bare enumeration of themso frequent,would make an indifferent volum.Wherefore I\cannot but admire the address of the Druids,in fixing thisceremony of rekindling family-firesto the beginning of November, rather than to Mayor midsummer, when there was an equal opportunityfor it.V. A world of places* are denominated fromthose earns of all sorts, as in Wales Cani-Lhechart,Caru'Lhaid; in Scotland Carn-wath, Carniidlock,Driim-ccdrn, Gleti-cairn;in Ireland Carn-'mail, Carn-aret, Carnaii'tagher, Carncin-toher\ ;andin Northumberland, as in other parts of the northof England, they are sometimes calFd Laics orLows, a name they also give the Gothic barrows.The Lowland Scots call 'em in the plural numberCairns^ whence severallordships are nam'd,as one in Lennox, another in Galloway (to mentionno more) from which the surname of Cairns.The family of Carne, in Wales, is from the likeoriginal: but not, as some have thought, the OKearnys I of Ireland; one of which, Mr. JohnKearny, treasurer of Saint Patric's in Dublin, wasvery instrumental in getting the Neiv Tastamcnttranslated into Irish, about the end of the lastcentury but one. As to this fire-worship, which* The places are numberless hi all these countries. + Carnan1*3 the diminutive of (^am, % C^furnaii^hy besides Ceathar"