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have extended to such a length, that I must, in tlio meantime,
desist. Next Session I propose to give some furthei- such gleanings,
includin«r extracts from the Records of the Parishes of Alvie
Dr A. H. F. Cameron has contributed the following notes in
reference to his paper in last year's volume of Transactions, on the
CELTIC DERIVATION OF ENGLISH RIVER NAMES.
He says :—I should like to add a few notes on the derivation
of river names. The first I wish to mention is the name Yar or
Yare, which is probably derived from Earr, an end, a boundary.
Allan supposed to mean a gi-eat river may be from Allaidh
Abhaian, the wild, tiei'ce river. I think the influence of Celtic
river names may be traced even in the heart of London. I have
mentioned my belief that the name Bourne is the Gaelic Burn
and in a curious work, entitled " London and its Environs Described,"
published in the year 1761, under the word Holborn, I
find the following, " This street was anciently a village called Oldborne,
built on the bank of a brook or borne,* called Olborne or
Holbourn, that sprung up near middle row and flowed down the
hill in a clear current till it fell into the river of Wells at Holboi'n
Bridge. Tyburn, too, where the last Jacobite execution took
place, was, on the same authority, anciently a village situated on
the eastern bank of the rivulet Tyburn, fi'om whence it took its
name.
I should like to correct one or t'yo printer's errors in my paperin
the last volume of the Transactions. The name of the Teme
in Worcestershire is misspelt, and the second root mentioned by
Mr I. Taylor should be Dwr not Devon.
Scotland with the spelling hum."
* Webster gives " Bourn, a brook, a torrent, a rivulet, obaolete used in
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