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THE CELTIC MAGAZTXE.2S9high circle, seminary or college of the thnnderer); Fordoun (ffor dwn, thedark jiass) ; Fettercairn (ffetur earn, wild oat cairn) ; Gannachie, on theNorth Esk, where the river is hemmed in by tremendous rocks (gan y chwip,the mortice or cut of the rapid) ; Balfour (bal ffwrch, forked or bifuercatedhill) ; Monboddo (mon boddu^ agreeable or pleasing hill standing by itself) ;Fiddes (Ifedus, exposed, open) ;Inchmarlo (ynys marliad, marly island) ;Ardo (arddu, very black) ; Balmakewan (bal ma cwyn, the hill of weeping);Kerloch Hill (caer lloch, fort of refuge) ; Auchbinies (awch banwes, the ridgeof the farrow cow) ; Cutty Hillock, where the road from Brechin to Bjesidebranches off to Banchory and Huntly (cyd y ceiliog, moorcock junction);Dalledies (dal lledu, widening or spreading dale) ; Drumlethie (trum lledw,broad ridge) ; and Drumtoughty (trum toedig, covered ridge).The pass of BolUtar in Aberdeenshire, whidi forms the eastern entrance intothe Grampian Mountains, seems to be the Welsh Bol y tardd, gorge of thevent or issue. Bol is heahirli in Gaelic, and tardd, turailh, but the latterword is used only in the sense of fruit or produce, effect or results.Forbes, on the Don, I am inclined to explain as ffor has, the shallowford ; Monymusk as mon y mw&g, mossy point ;Putachie, as pwt awchi, asharp push ; Kiutore as cyn tor, boss head ;Half-forest as hel tforest, holmpark ; Noth as noeth, naked, bare, exposed ;Cairney as earned, a heap ofstones ; Monquhitter as mon chwydd wyr, extensive swelling heath ; Drumbladeas trum bleidd, wolf's hill ; Auchterless as awch tir lies, the limit ofthe good land ; Tyrie, as tyriad, heaping, piling up ; Pitsligo as pyd ys Uygod,the mouse well, or pyd ys llygad, the well eye ; Aberdour on the MorayFirth, as aber dwr, the water foot.The cave of Cowshaven, among the rocks on the coast, to the bottom ofwhich it is said nobody has ever penetrated, may be c->v ys hafn, the cavernat or near the harbour.The ancient Castle of Dundargue, overhanging the boisterous surge,may have been originally Dun darguch, frowning castle.The hill of Mormond, near Fraserburgh, from which there is a fine prospect,mor mund, sea hill.The river Rathen, flowing through rich haughs, rhath afon, the river ofthe open plain or clearing.Crimond, rising almost perpendicularly from the shore, crimp raund, sharpridge hill.Ellon, at a turn of the Ythan, elin, angle, elbow.Rosehearty—\Yel3li, rhos hwrddiog, rams' meadow, meadow appropriatedto rams.Banchory-Davenick, ban chor y da ffynach, the high court of the twomonks.Abergeldy, aber gell dwr, the mouth of the dun water.The mountain of Corryhabbie, cor y hab, the circle of fortune;k.Cairngorm, Welsh, earn gwrm, Gaelic cam cjorvif the azure rock.