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 192 In heuah we seem to have the sound of hue as in " Hue and cry." Whether the origin of the word Hevah! can be traced to Evoe ! is not very clear, yet the following quotation by Beal (Britain and the Gael) may be interesting to the reader. "Strabo (born about A.D. 19), speaks of an island near Britain, where sacrifice was offered to Ceres and Proserpine, in the same manner as at Samothrace; and in the words of Dionysius Perieg, (lines 1225, 1228), or of his translator," it is said, Shout to the clamorous Eiraphiates ; Or, as the Indians on dark-rolHng Ganges, Hold revels to Dionysos the noisy, So do the British women shout EVOG ! Finally, it may be observed that uhha is also written uppa (but pronounced oopa) a word or outcry also meaning, in this place, here. See Uppa, uppa, holye. Hud, or Hull. A shell, as of a nut, &c. In Celtic Cornish hudha, to cover, to hide. Hud. The dry crust or scrab on a sore. Huel. A mine, a work, ffivel, ivJieal, wheyl, whel, and ivhyl are Celtic Cornish for the same. Huer. A man stationed on some look-out place near the sea to give notice of the position of a shoal of pilchards. Dr. Paris, in describing the Pilchard fishery. (Guide to Mounts Bay and the Land's End, note, p. 150), says that Tunny-fish were caught by a similar process in the Archipelago. *'Ascendebat
 * As the Bistonians on Apsinthus banks