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 PEOPLE RACE, DIALECT, POPULATION 69 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, yl/^w a stone, .&?/ a mine, Bos is a corruption of Bod and is sometimes reduced to Bo ; CWr stands for Caer a fortress; Z)ww 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 ; Cam 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, Pare 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 Corn- wall such names are few. The people are courteous and kindly, and very inde- pendent. In South Africa, whither many thousand miners have migrated, they are not popular, and are fain to