_Carr_ I have looked for in vain among the etymologists. Johnson merely quotes Gibson's Camden to show that, in the names of places, _Car_ "seems to have relation to the British _caer_, a city;" and Junius, Skinner, Lemon, Horne Tooke, Jamieson, &c. are silent about it. The word is applied, in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, to the low lands, or wide marsh pastures that border the Trent; and I feel little doubt that, like the word _heygre_, and many others that might be collected, it has been in use ever since it was given to these localities, by the primeval tribes, the Kelts, when they first saw these beautiful tracts, so much subject to inundation, like the flat borders of their own rivers in the East. =HEBREW= (car) a pasture, is found in Isaiah, xxx. 23. Psalm lxv. 14, &c., and although =HEBREW= (kicar) is simply translated "plain" in the established version, and Gesenius would, still more vaguely, render it "circuit, surrounding country," (from =HEBREW=, in Arabic, _to be round_,) yet I suspect the words come from the same root, and have the same meaning. Thus, Genesis xiii. 10. =HEBREW= might literally be rendered "And Lot raised his eyes, and saw all the carr of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah; like the land of Mitzraim, as thou approachest Zoar." How natural, that the Keltic or Kymric tribes should behold, in the Trent pastures, the resemblance of the plains on the banks of the Jordan, the Nile, the Tigris, and Euphrates--(for the term =HEBREW= _garden of Jehovah_ most probably denotes Mesopotamia, in the very ancient fragments collected by Moses to form the book of Genesis)--and should denote them by the same name! =ARABIC=, khaw[=a]r, also signifies "low or sloping ground," in Richardson's Arabic and Persian Dictionary; and "Carr, a bog, a fen, or morass," occurs in Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary. The word I conceive is thus clearly traced to its Keltic or Eastern origin. XIV. CROWD. Sir John Hawkins, in his highly curious "History of Music" (vol. ii. page 274) says "The _Cruth_ or _Crowth_" was an instrument "formerly in common use in the principality of Wales," and is the "prototype of the whole fidicinal species of musical instruments." "It has six strings, supported by a bridge, and is played on by a bow." "The word _Cruth_ is pronounced in English _Crowth_, and corruptly _Crowd_." "LÞuð is the Saxon appellation given by Leland, for the instrument (Collectanea: vol. v.)" "A player on the _cruth_ was called a Crowther or Crowder, and so also is a common fiddler to this day; and hence, undoubtedly, Crowther, or Crowder, a common surname. Butler, with his usual humour, has characterised a common fiddler, and given him the name of Crowdero." "I'th' head of all this warlike rabble Crowdero marched, expert and able." XV. REBECK.