 Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic Erse type. It would appear that not a single colonist from Wales ever reached the island, which, from the mountains of Carnarvon, is seen like a faint blue cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six...  Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 180by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 688 pages
...about twenty per cent, are English, twenty-one per cent, are Norwegian, and fifty-nine per cent, are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...ever reached the island, which from the mountains of Caernarvon is seen like a faint cloud upon the blue waters." There are ninetysix names beginning with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1864 - 600 pages
...names, of which about 20 per cent, are English, 21 per cent, are Norwegian, and 59 per cent, are Gaelic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...like a faint blue cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six names beginning with " balla," and the names of more than a dozen of the highest mountains... | |
 | 1864 - 610 pages
...names, of which about 20 per cent, are English, 21 per cent, are Norwegian, and 59 per cent, ore Gaelic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...like a faint blue cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six names beginning with " balla," and the names of more than a <! ,zcn of the highest mountains... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1864 - 624 pages
...ethnological importance has been attributed to the distinction between inver and aber. 8 See p. 240, supra. names are all of the most characteristic Erse type....like a faint blue cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six names beginning with Balla, and the names of more than a dozen of the highest mountains... | |
 | 1864 - 602 pages
...Norwegian, and 59 per cent, are Gaelic. These Celtic names aro all of the most characteristic Erso type. It would appear that not a single colonist from Wales ever reached the island, which, from the monntains of Carnarvon, is seen like a faint bluo cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six names... | |
 | 1865 - 482 pages
...hundred names, of which about 20 per cent. are English, 21 per cent. are Norwegian, and 59 per cent. are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...like a faint blue cloud upon the water." There are ninety-six names beginning with Balla; and the names of more than a dozen of the highest mountains... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1865 - 650 pages
...400 names, of which about 20 per cent, are English, 21 per cent, are Norwegian, and 59 per cent, are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...which, from the mountains of Carnarvon, is seen like a 1 See Kemble, Saxons in England, vol. ii. pp. 4, 5; Chalmers, Caledonia, vol. L p. 480 ; Latham, Ethnology... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1869 - 620 pages
...about twenty per cent, are English ; twenty-one per cent, are Norwegian ; and fifty-nine per cent, are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...ever reached the island, which from the mountains of Caernarvon is seen like a faint cloud upon the blue waters. There are ninety-six names beginning with... | |
 | Manx Society - 1868 - 210 pages
...about twenty per cent, are English, twenty-one per cent, are Norwegian, and fifty-nine per cent, are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...single colonist from Wales ever reached the island, f which from the mountains * Arran, Islay, and Kathlin. of Caernarvon is seen like a faint cloud upon... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1873 - 480 pages
...400 names, of which about 20 per cent, are English, 21 per cent, are Norwegian, an-d 59 per cent, are Celtic. These Celtic names are all of the most characteristic...like a faint blue cloud upon the water. There are ninety-six names beginning with Balla, and the names of more than a dozen of the highest mountains... | |
| |
