Note 98 — Chapter X · SECONDARY ROCKS. No. 4. The Wealden.

The term Weald or Wold is the old Saxon for our present Wood; and now, altered by pronunciation, is found in connexion with many words and names of places: e.g. Waltham (Weald-ham), the wood house or home; Walthamstow, the wood house store, and so on. Thus it is that words are “fossil poetry.”