TRANSACTIONS OF THE GLASGOW ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. PART II. GLASGOW: PRINTED BY JAMES MACNAB, 11 MILLER STREET. MDCCCLXII. CONTENTS OF PART II. ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF SOME NAMES OF A VISIT TO THE WALL OF HADRIAN, PAGE 79 100 ON THE EARLY POPULATION OF SCOTLAND, MEMORIAL RELATIVE TO THE HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHOLAS, 124 135 SCOTLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES: NOTES BY MR. ALEXANDER GALLOWAY ON THE WORK OF COSMO INNES, 180 NO. VI. ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF SOME NAMES OF PLACES IN SCOTLAND, AND PARTICULARLY IN CLYDESDALE : BY ALEXANDER GALLOWAY, Esq. [Read at a Meeting of the Glasgow Archaelogical Society, on 3rd January, 1859.] Ar the anniversary meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland held in Edinburgh, 30th November last, Lord Neaves, the president, remarked that the study of antiquities is important in two principal ways,-first, as a help to the history of periods which have records, and, second, as a substitute for history as to those earlier periods of which no written memorials remain; that the study should be pursued independently, with minuteness and detail, for the customs and usages, the remains and traditions of many other nations must be known before we can draw safe inferences from what we meet with in our own country; that in these pursuits caution must go hand in hand with knowledge; that one of the most important subjects of antiquarian research is language which is indeed the most certain and significant of all the signs of pre-historic events; and that the names of places in Scotland, when examined with minuteness and care, seem to point at important information. The following slight contribution in the department of enquiry as to old names of places is here submitted, not as pretending to contain important information, but as being some results of an "independent" examination, in so far as researches of the kind may be properly so termed. If, fortunately, it shall stimulate to similar efforts others more competent and having more leisure for such pursuits, some of the good which the National Society's respected president has thought derivable from them may be ultimately attained. The difficulties in the way of enquirers should not discourage them, neither should even the vexatious uncertainties which are inseparable from the subject. When we begin to study the laboured productions of the writers on Scottish history and philology who have attracted L |