Halcyon days mean blissful, pleasant, radiant, ideal, days, and of the Holy King or All King the blue jewelled King-fisher or Halcyon seems to have been a symbol. Whether there be any connection between Elgin and the Irish Hooligans, or whether these trace their origin to the "son of Ollcain," I do not know. From the colossal Kinia and Acongagua down to the humblest _peg_, every _peak_ seems to have been similarly named. The pimple is a diminutive hill or _pock_, and the _pykes_ of Cumberland are the _peaks_ of Derbyshire. At the summit of the Peak District stands Buxton, claiming to be the highest market-town in England: around Buxton, formerly written "Bawkestanes," still stand cromlechs and other Poukelays or Buk stones: Backhouse is a surname in the Buxton district, and the original Backhouses may well have worshipped either Bacchus, _i.e._, St. Baccho, or the gentle Baucis who merged into a Linden tree. [Illustration: FIG. 137.--Ancient Pagan Altar on Tory Hill. From _Sketches of Irish History_ (Anon., 1844).] Near Buxton are the sources of the river Wye, and by Wye in Kent, near Kennington, we find Olantigh Park, St. Alban's Court, Mount Pleasant, Little London, and Trey Town: by the church at Wye are two inns, named respectively "The Old Flying Horse," and "The New Flying Horse"; Wye races are still held upon an egg-shaped course, and close to Kennington Oval--which I am unable to trace beyond its earlier condition of a market-garden--stands a celebrated "White Horse Inn". At Kennington by Wye a roadside inn sign is "The Golden Ball," which once presumably implied the Sun or Sol, for in the immediate neighbourhood is Soles Court. [Illustration: FIG. 138.--Iberian. From Akerman.]