_booth_, Scotch _bothy_), which stands out prominently in Bodmin and other towns, not only in Cornwall, but in Wales. The termination _bus_ appears likewise in not a few local designations in the island of Islay, where the Danes had many settlements. In Skye it appears as _bost_, as in SKEABOST, one of the oldest seats of the Macdonalds. The other Saxon or Scandinavian terms frequently met with throughout England and in the north-east of Scotland are--_ton_, _setter_ or _ster_, _stead_, _stow_, _stoke_, _hay_, _park_, _worth_, _bury_, _thorp_, _toft_, _thwaite_. In Germany, besides _heim_ and _hausen_, as already mentioned, we have the English _hay_, under the form _hagen_, a fence; and _thorp_ under the form _dorf_, a village; and _worth_ under the forms _worth_ and _werth_, which are merely variations of the Greek χόρτος, English yard, and the Sclavonic _gard_ and _gorod_, and the Celtic _garad_, the familiar word in the Highlands for a stone wall or dyke. In Germany, also, _weiler_, from _weilen_, to dwell, and _leben_, to live, are thickly sprinkled; _hof_, also, is extremely common, signifying a court or yard--a suffix which the French, in that part of Germany which they stole from the Empire, turned into _court_ or _ville_, as in _Thionville_ from _Diedenhofen_. So much for the Teutonic part of this branch of topographical designation. In the Highlands _tigh_ and _bail_ are the commonest words to denote a human dwelling, the one manifestly an aspirated form of the Latin _tignum_ (Greek στἐγος, German _dach_), and the other as plainly identical with the πόλις which appears in Sebastopol, and not a few cities, both ancient and modern, where Greek influence or Greek affectation prevailed. With regard to _bal_, it is noticeable that in Ireland it generally takes the form of _bally_, which is the full form of the word in Gaelic also, _baile_, there being no final mute vowels in that language; but in composition for topographical use final _e_ is dropped, as in BALMORAL, the majestic town or house, from _morail_, magnificent, a very apt designation for a royal residence, by whatever prophetic charm it came to be so named before her present Majesty learned the healthy habit of breathing pure Highland air amid the fragrant birches and clear waters of Deeside. _Tigh_, though less common than _bal_, is not at all unfrequent in the mountains; and tourists in the West Highlands are sure to encounter two of the most notable between Loch Lomond and Oban. The first, TYNDRUM, the house on the ridge, at the point where the ascent ceases as you cross from Killin to Dalmally; and the other TAYNUILT, or the house of the brook, in Scotch burnhouse, beyond Ben Cruachan, where the road begins to wend through the rich old copsewood towards Oban. I remember also a curious instance of the word _tigh_ in a local designation, half-way between Inveraray and Loch Awe. In that district a little farmhouse on the