except the whirlpool, the Maelström, be connected with it. In Norfolk ea, ee are frequently changed for oa, oo. Thus "sheaf" and "reek" are in Norfolk "shoaf" and "roke;" and "smeath," a table land, is evidently from "smooth."
Can this change of vowels have taken place in this word, and "meals" signify "moles," from the shelf of sand projecting like a mole? or can any correspondent suggest a better etymology?
E. G. R.
[The quotation given above is omitted in the folio edition of Bailey, 1736; but is correctly given in Phillips's New World of Words:—"Meales, or Males, the shelves or banks of sand on the sea-coasts of Norfolk: whence Ingom-meals, the name of a sandy shore in Lincolnshire." The word Meales, or Malls, is however obviously connected with the Icelandic Möl, which Helmboe, in his recently-published work, Det Norske Sprogs, &c., defines "coarse sand; a sandy or stony place.">[
Haughmond Abbey, Salop.—I should feel obliged for any particulars of the history, or a reference to any work that contains a full account, of these fine ruins. Hulbert does not give by any means a detailed notice in his History of Salop.
Salopian.
[Some account of this abbey, with two engraved views of it, will be found in the Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xiii. part i. pp. 179-82. Consult also Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 107.]
"As flies to wanton boys."—Can you inform me from what writer is the following quotation (in Mary Wolstoncraft's Travels in Sweden)?—
"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport."