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120 THE HISTORY
sent clergy's dues; which acts are so many and
that the bare enumeration of them
so frequent,
would make an indifferent volum.
Wherefore I
cannot but admire the address of the Druids,
in fixing this ceremony of rekindling family-fires
to the beginning of November, rather than to May
or midsummer, Avhen there was an equal opportunity
for it.
V. A world of places* are denominated from
those earns of all sorts, as in Wales Carn-LJiechart,
Carn-Lhaid; in Scotland Carn-ivath, CarntuUocIc,
Drum-cairn, Glen-cairn; in Ireland Curnmail,
Carn-aret, Carnan-tagher, Carnan-tober\ ; and
in Northumberland, as in other parts of the north
of England, they are sometimes call'd Laics or
Loivs, a name they also give the Gothic barrows.
The Lowland Scots call 'em in the plural number
Cairns, whence several
lordships are nam'd,
as one in Lennox, another in Galloway (to mention
no more) from which the surname of Cairns.
The family of Carne, in Wales, is from the like
original: but not, as some have thought, the O
Kearnys;}; of Ireland; one of which, Mr. John
Kearny, treasurer of Saint Patric's in Dublin, was
very instrumental in getting the Neic Tastament
translated into Irish, about the end of the last
century but one.
As to this tire-worship, which
* The places are numberless hi all these couutries. + Carnan
is the diminutive of Cam, J Ccamaighf besides Ctathnr-