Abstract

The author commenced by distinguishing between an etymology of names of places founded upon mere resemblance of sounds, and one where the names are analysed according to fixed laws, based upon sound philological principles and a comprehensive observation of facts. The former is the ordinary process to which they are subjected, and has characterised all systematic attempts hitherto made to analyse the topography of Scotland. It can lead only to fanciful renderings, and is incapable of yielding any certain results, while the latter becomes an important element in fixing the ethnology of the inhabitants of a country.

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