of the Lake.  GLENS:—­“Glenfinlas, Glen Fruin, Glen Luss, Ross-dhu, Leven-glen, Strath-Endrick, Strath-Gartney, Strath-Ire.”—­Ib. MOUNTAINS:—­“Ben-an, Benharrow, Benledi, Ben-Lomond, Benvoirlich, Ben-venue, and sometimes Benvenue.”—­Ib. “Fenelon died in 1715, deeply lamented by all the inhabitants of the Low-countries.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 322.  “And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS:  2 Kings, xxiii, 34.  “Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her Good Fortune; but the others, who weep and wring their hands, Bad-fortune.”—­Collier’s Tablet of Cebes.

UNDER RULE VIII.—­OF COMPOUNDS.

“When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the valley of salt.”—­SCOTT:  Ps. lx, title.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the words valley and salt begin with small letters.  But, according to Rule 8th, “When any adjective or common noun is made a distinct part of a compound proper name, it ought to begin with a capital.”  Therefore, “Valley” should here begin with a capital V, and “Salt” with a capital S.]

“Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill and said,” &c.—­SCOTT:  Acts, xvii, 22.  “And at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.”—­Luke, xxi, 37.  “Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy land with Charlemagne.”—­Univ.  Biog.  Dict. “Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain coast from the Ivory coast.”—­Dict. of Geog., p. 125.  “The North Esk, flowing from Loch-lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose.”—­Ib., p. 232.  “At Queen’s ferry, the channel of the Forth is contracted by promontories on both coasts.”—­Ib., p. 233.  “The Chestnut ridge is about twenty-five miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel ridge, ten miles further west.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 65.  “Washington City, the metropolis of the United States of America.”—­W.’s Univ.  Gaz., p. 380.  “Washington city, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826.”—­Ib., p. 408.  “The loftiest peak of the white mountains, in new Hampshire, is called mount Washington.”—­Author.  “Mount’s bay, in the west of England, lies between the land’s end and lizard point.”—­Id. “Salamis, an island of the Egean Sea, off the southern coast of the ancient Attica.”—­Dict. of Geog.  “Rhodes, an island of the Egean sea, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades.”—­Ib. “But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea.”—­BRUCE’S BIBLE:  Ps. cxxxvi, 15.  “But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.”—­SCOTT:  Ps. cvi, 7.[107]

UNDER RULE IX.—­OF APPOSITION.

“At that time, Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus.”—­ALGER:  Matt., xiv, 1.