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^ quart er p £ names of towns , villages , hamlets , f ^ and of all natural objects . It may be supposed that these names are chiefly of xnpd ^ TO origin , given , perhaps within the last century , as the presumed progress of ^
occupation ; We shall certainly find some colliery villages with new names-r-and severed W " aterlops ; we shall | lnd a few n ^ W iiaihed ferms in the fens ; but the great m # ss , however old or new they may be , we shall be able to determine & priori ^ and by test , not to be modern , but old . For , as the natural features of the country were recognizable by the first English Frisian , or Saxon settlers in the island , so were they named by them , and those names have been transmitted .
Upon this principle depends , to a great estent , the value of the topographical i ^ inlands , a branch of study which , though it has ei ^^ gists ~ -has not acquired tbat im ^ simple reasons- ^ ecaus ^ exist in great abundance , they have not been available to the inquirer to any extent adequate
for his purposes . For the reader must remember what it is that is Abated—the names of farms and cottages and fields , woods , copses , hillocks and btirroAv ^ throughout &^ said , of at least a quarter of a millfon of names , so far as the English names are concerned } and there are besides , the Cornish , Welsh , and Erse . The want of this basis has been likewise the cause of the
inadequate and uncertain results that have *> een obtained by those Who have attempted to prosecute the subject . The questions likewise which haive been attempted to be solved , have been those on which the topographical materials threw but little light . Such are the questions ofthe ethnological relations of the Belgians , Caledonians ^ and Picts , on
which Pinkerton and others have exercised themselves , the pre-Roman nomenclature of English localities , the determination of the Roman stations in England , and the investigation of RomanotBritish rerp . ains—on which Whittaker and so many antiquaries have fruitlessly exercised so much ingenuity .
At present all that has been obtained from this mine of matter has been a few Iberian names . An investigation into the names ofthe English clans or tribes , by Eemble , in his " Rise and Progress of the Anglo-Saxon Commonwealth , " the collection of various assumed
Banish names , and the recognition by the Rev . Mr . Hartshorne , in his " Salopia Anbiqua , " of some of the relations of Roman sites with Anglo-Saxon nomenclature . Mr . Hartshorne is , among all those who have taken up the subject , the investigator who has instituted the most extended researches , who has created for
himself the most copious materials , and who has arrived at the best methods and safest conclusions ; but , unhappily , he abandoned the task which he so successfully began in the " Salopia . " If Mr . Hartshorne had followed up to their fulfilment the principles which he demonstrated in his preliminary treatise on the , value , of topographical nomenclature , as affording data for
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Akolo-Saxon- Mstoey As N^Lustrated By ' ...
^ quart er p £ names of towns , villages , hamlets , f ^ and of all natural objects . It may be supposed that these names are chiefly of xnpd ^ TO origin , given , perhaps within the last century , as the presumed progress of ^
occupation ; We shall certainly find some colliery villages with new names-r-and severed W " aterlops ; we shall | lnd a few n ^ W iiaihed ferms in the fens ; but the great m # ss , however old or new they may be , we shall be able to determine & priori ^ and by test , not to be modern , but old . For , as the natural features of the country were recognizable by the first English Frisian , or Saxon settlers in the island , so were they named by them , and those names have been transmitted .
Upon this principle depends , to a great estent , the value of the topographical i ^ inlands , a branch of study which , though it has ei ^^ gists ~ -has not acquired tbat im ^ simple reasons- ^ ecaus ^ exist in great abundance , they have not been available to the inquirer to any extent adequate
for his purposes . For the reader must remember what it is that is Abated—the names of farms and cottages and fields , woods , copses , hillocks and btirroAv ^ throughout &^ said , of at least a quarter of a millfon of names , so far as the English names are concerned } and there are besides , the Cornish , Welsh , and Erse . The want of this basis has been likewise the cause of the
inadequate and uncertain results that have *> een obtained by those Who have attempted to prosecute the subject . The questions likewise which haive been attempted to be solved , have been those on which the topographical materials threw but little light . Such are the questions ofthe ethnological relations of the Belgians , Caledonians ^ and Picts , on
which Pinkerton and others have exercised themselves , the pre-Roman nomenclature of English localities , the determination of the Roman stations in England , and the investigation of RomanotBritish rerp . ains—on which Whittaker and so many antiquaries have fruitlessly exercised so much ingenuity .
At present all that has been obtained from this mine of matter has been a few Iberian names . An investigation into the names ofthe English clans or tribes , by Eemble , in his " Rise and Progress of the Anglo-Saxon Commonwealth , " the collection of various assumed
Banish names , and the recognition by the Rev . Mr . Hartshorne , in his " Salopia Anbiqua , " of some of the relations of Roman sites with Anglo-Saxon nomenclature . Mr . Hartshorne is , among all those who have taken up the subject , the investigator who has instituted the most extended researches , who has created for
himself the most copious materials , and who has arrived at the best methods and safest conclusions ; but , unhappily , he abandoned the task which he so successfully began in the " Salopia . " If Mr . Hartshorne had followed up to their fulfilment the principles which he demonstrated in his preliminary treatise on the , value , of topographical nomenclature , as affording data for