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| brow; and Castle-Carrock is plainly Castell-carreg, or the Castle on the Rock. I will add a few more instances, such as Cam-rew, i.e. cam rhiw, or the bending brows; Cryglin, i.e. cryg llyn, or the pool of the tumulus; Garth, or the side of the dingle; Blen-cairn, from blaen a point or end, and cairn a heap of stones; Glen-carn-beck, i.e. glen cairn bach, or the little stoney valley; Galligil, i.e. gallt and cyll, or the hill of the hazel-trees; Rig is found in several of the composed names, and signifies a barrow or tumulus; and, finally, Derwent-water is derived from derwen an oak, from the abundance of those trees which grew about that beautiful lake. This county remained under the dominion of the Britons very long after the subjection of the rest of the kingdom by the Saxons; and, like Wales, retained its own princes and language, I believe, till about the year 945, when Edmund the elder put an end to the Cambrian kingdom, and bestowed it on Malcolm king of Scotland*. |
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| Talkin Tarn Middle Gelt Bridge | I passed near Talkin Tarn, a small lake. Talkin is a corrupt Welsh word from Talcen, a front: Tarn is a piece of water, a very old northern word, derived, according to Dr. Johnson, from the Icelandic Teorne. |
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| From the road I digressed a very small distance to Gelt- |
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| * Saxon Chron. 115. |
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