1. _England._ The SOAR. Leicester. The SARK, forms the boundary between England and Scotland. _France._ The SERRE. Joins the Oise. _Germany._ SARAVUS ant., now the SAAR. SORAHA, 8th cent., a small stream seemingly now unnamed. SURA, 7th cent. The SURE and the SUR. The SORG. Prussia. _Switzerland._ The SARE and the SUR. _Norway._ The SURA. _Russia._ The SURA. Joins the Volga. The SVIR, falls into Lake Ladoga. _Lombardy._ The SERIO. Joins the Adda. The SERCHIO or SARCO. _Portugal._ The SORA. Joins the Tagus. _Asia._ SERUS ant., now the Meinam. _Asia Minor._ SARUS ant., now the Sihon. _India._ SARAYU[21] ant., now the Sardju. _Armenia._ ARIUS[22] ant., now the Heri Rud. 2. _With the ending en._ _France._ The SERAN. Joins the Rhone. The SERAIN. Joins the Yonne. _Germany._ SORNA, 8th cent. The ZORN. _Switzerland._ The SUREN. Cant. Aargau. _Naples._ SARNUS ant. The SARNO. _Persia._ SARNIUS ant., now the Atrek. The form _saras_, water, seems to be found in the following two names. 1. _With the ending en._ _France._ The SARSONNE. Dep. Corrèze. 2. _Compounded with wati = Goth. wato, water._ _India._ The SARASWATI, which still retains its ancient name. And the Sansc. _sarit_, Gael. and Ir. _sroth_, _sruth_, a river, seem to be found in the following. _Ireland._ The SWORDS river near Dublin. _France._ The SARTHE. Joins the Mayenne. _Galicia._ The SERED. Joins the Dniester. _Moldavia._ The SERETH. Ant. Ararus. _Russia._ The SARAT(OVKA).[23] Gov. Saratov. It would seem that the foregoing forms _sri_, _sru_, _srot_, sometimes take a phonetic _t_, and become _stri_, _stru_, _strot_. Thus one Celtic dialect, the Armorican, changes _sur_ into _ster_, and another, the Cornish, changes _sruth_ into _struth_--both words signifying a river. But indeed the natural tendency towards it is too obvious to require much comment. Hence we may take the names Stry and Streu. But is the form Stur from this source also? Förstemann finds an etymon in Old High German _stur_, Old Norse _stôr_, great. This may obtain in the case of some of the rivers of Scandinavia, but is hardly suited for those of England and Italy, none of which are large. The root, moreover, seems too widely spread, if, as I suspect, it is this which forms the ending of many ancient names as the Cayster, the Cestrus, the Alster, Elster, Ister, Danastris, &c. The Armorican _ster_, a river, seems to be the word most nearly concerned.