Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum / Auctore Willielmo Baxter. Accedunt ... Edvardi Luidii ... de fluviorum, montium, urbium, etc. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma.

  • William Baxter
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1719
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Credit: Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum / Auctore Willielmo Baxter. Accedunt ... Edvardi Luidii ... de fluviorum, montium, urbium, etc. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    durch, Q IDüfj, in Brecknockfhire; fo called be- caufe in Floud it tumbles up the Gravel and Stones. Bauz, &YPÍmg, ibid. for thefame reafon; and hence probably the ?5ütft, the main River of Ireland. gurcb, € YAoebtttlt, in Shropíhire, from itsfwift Current. | | | 3yrchbelb, 91 YA0t, in Carnarvonfhire. Ejain, € ffütu, in Montgomeryfhire. Hefpin, q SDcep that yields no Milk. There are two or three Brooks of this Name about Y (lrad- yelhte in Brecknockíhire, fo called becaufe their Channels confifting of Limeítone have great Ca- verns, which in Summer time take up all the Wa- ter the Springs afford ; fo that the Channels being , left Zry, the Brooks are called 77e/piz. . Bróu, € QLtüft, probably from its Swiftnefs. There is a Brook of this Name by Lhan-Gollen in Denbighíhire, whence the Name of Dizga; Brán, and not, (as Humphrey Lhüyd and Camden fuppofe) frora the Gaulifh ( General ] Brezzus. There are two or three more Arázs in Brecknockfhire and Carmarthenfhire. IX, They fometimes receive their Names from fome remarkable T'REEs or PLAN TS growing on their Banks or in them; as Nau yr Helie, q.d. nglicé, CCltllotubecR ; Gaerzazt, i. e. Stüerhouttt, | ke ;iat, a River of Anglefey is probably fo cal- lee from Cülbite COatecXLillieg, which in Britifh fare called 24/az. , . X. Some few of the fmaller Brooks have no other Name than that of the V rur AGE they país by or through, as z£voz Doelgelbe, INaut Coris, Avon Lban- yair, &c. XI. Some others of them are named from their being BouNDAnIEs either betwixt one County and another, or one Parifh and another, or betwixt feveral Men's Lands. | And fuch areoften called 7iz- nant or INant y Fín, Tervyunant ox INaut y Tervyn, ' M m 2 Nant