NAMES OF STREETS.

The names of the streets in both towns have undergone great alteration, and their original designation do not appear to be satisfactorily known and are necessarily enveloped in great obscurity. St. Nicholas Street in Weymouth, and St. Nicholas Street in Melcombe, both derive their name from the patron Saint of Maritime towns, the former of these which led to the chapel, is now scarcely known under that name ;—Francis Street is also called in old documents, Franchise and Franchayes;-Boot Lane formerly Buckler's, from a family of that name who emigrated to America ;—Cribbage Hill, formerly Scambridge and Cratteridge, the latter of these names would appear (if it might be indulged,) to indicate its having been the scene of Volcanic eruption;-Helen Lane, might be derived from queen Eleanor, who held the manor of Melcombe, 16th Edward I.;—Maiden Street, from queen Elizabeth, who united the Burgs;-Conygar, formerly Cunnigar, Coingere, from Conigeria, a Coney Burrow; there are also several streets which derive their name from their situation, thus West Street in both towns; East Street formerly bounded by the sea, has now numerous houses in front of it; New Street, also bore the name of East Street; Edmund, Thomas, and Mary, from their respective Saints; that spot of ground formerly called Townshend Fields, but now covered with rows of well built houses, derives its name from the Townson's whose property it was; Babbridge Square is now extinct;-Silver Street, formerly Leach Lane, called from a family of that name;Jordan Hill, might also have derived its name from the Jordan's, one of whom was mayor of these towns 1596, an ancestor of whom, in the 18th Henry VI., possessed certain lands here; Lodmoor is called from lade Mor, a marshy land; Bincleves, from the Phoenician Bin, and Saxon, clyff, high cliff. The Nothe probaby from naude, a projection, and indeed the ancient name of the County is still preserved in the neighbourhood of Weymouth, at Durdle Rock, which is derived from durdol, a water opening;-Chapelry and Chapelhayes, both describe the boundaries of a Chapel, the scite of the Almshouses and of the Mill, are daily getting unknown, as rows of buildings are erected on the spot, and the noxious mixen is now extinct;-the grounds covered at high water, and called Hassocks, might have derived their name from the feudal tenure of Soccage of Hares to the barony of Cerne; the Abbey and Charitable Lands appear to have been perverted from their original foundation, and converted either into votes or added to the temporal possessions of the heads of the towns, and their limits or location cannot be easily defined. The

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names of the new rows of houses are chiefly taken from various members of the Royal Family and of the Borough Patrons, and others are derived from the owner of the lands, &c.; the exact time when the Town Marsh came into the possession of the Corporate Body cannot well be ascertained, it seems to have been leased and re-leased repeatedly-and to have been embanked up and walled, prior to the reign of Charles I., when it consisted of twenty acres and paid a quit rent. There has recently been erected a range of buildings expressly for the accommodation of the fish-mongers and dealers in pork, though the latter exhibited certain symptons of rebellion to the official ordonnance of the mayor, at its opening.

The following Tabular view of the state of the Winds and the Weather from January 1st, 1828, to December 31st, 1828, will further illustrate the position which has been attempted to be maintained of the dryness and temperature of the air at Weymouth.

For 62 days the wind blew in a Northerly direction, 90 Southerly, 98 Easterly, 79 Westerly, 36 Variable-365. In the same space of time there were 254 days dry, and 111 days wet-365.