Two modern Cornish dialects exist. That in the east very naturally is assimilated to the Devonshire; but in the west it has formed itself in comparatively recent times. The more common prefixes of names of places are:--_Tre_ an enclosure or homestead, _Lan_ also an enclosure for a church, _Ty_ a dwelling, _Bod_ a habitation, _Chy_ a house, _Pol_ a pool, _Pen_ a head, _Huel_ or _Wheal_ a mine, _Ros_ a moor, _Men_ a stone, _B[=a]l_ a mine, _Bos_ is a corruption of _Bod_ and is sometimes reduced to _Bo_; _Car_ stands for _Caer_ a fortress; _Dun_ has the same signification. _Burn_ stands for _Bron_ a hill, _Camborne_ should be _Cambron_, the crooked hill; _Cara_ is _Carreg_ a rock, and this is often found cut down to _Car_; _Carn_ is a cairn or heap of stones or mass of rock; _Enys_ or _Innis_ an island or peninsula. _Fenter_ occurring in many combinations is _fenten_ a well or spring; _Goon_ is the Welsh _Waun_ a grassy down; _Hal_ is a moor, _Parc_ an enclosure, _Dinas_ a chieftain's castle, _Lis_ a court of justice. It is possible that certain river names may derive from the original tongue of the earliest race. Some seem to be more akin to Goidelic than Brythonic dialect, as _Fal_ (Gaelic _foill_, slow), and _Fowey_ (Gaelic _fobhaidh_, swift); but there are not sufficient of these to assure us that the Goidels preceded the Brythons in Cornwall. In East Cornwall there must have been a considerable influx of Saxon settlers, for there we light upon such names of places as are compounded with _ton_ the home-farm, _worth_ and _worthy_ a fortified settlement, _stoke_, _stow_, _sto_ a stockade, an earthwork surmounted by a defence of posts; _ham_ a meadow by the waterside. In West Cornwall such names are few. [Illustration: Miners: Camborne] The people are courteous and kindly, and very independent. In South Africa, whither many thousand miners have migrated, they are not popular, and are fain to disguise whence they come by pretending to hail from Furness. The reason is that the Cornish cling together and do not care to associate with others, and that they lack that breadth of sympathy which makes men give up their time and devote their energies to the common good. The Cornish miner cares nothing for the country and for those among whom he has placed himself, if only in three years he may have made enough money to return home to his wife and children. He does not go out to settle, and this explains the lack of interest he has in what interests and concerns the colony. The Cornish are a broad-shouldered race, above the average in stature, and it is stated that west country regiments, when drawn up on parade, cover a greater space of ground than would those of other counties, the numbers being equal.