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SIR HERBERT MAXWELL will strike a sympathetic chord in the minds of many readers, who have not themselves time to search for the origin of place-names over which they have pondered, and perhaps speculated, without avail. We do not mean that the limited district so thoroughly sifted by Sir Herbert Maxwell affords illustrations for place-names everywhere, but his method of handling the subject serves as a model for the useful imitation of students in other districts where such a convenient hand-list is wanting.
Studies in the Topography of Galloway; being a List of nearly 4000 Names of Places with Remarks on their Origin and Meaning.
By Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell. (Edinburgh: Douglas, 1887.)
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LUCAS, J. The Topography of Galloway . Nature 36, 337–340 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036337a0
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