The Grammar of English Grammars, page 380 by Gould Brown
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."--_Ib._, 314. "About ten miles from its source, the Tay diffuses itself into Lochdochart."--_Geog. altered_. LAKES:--"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."--_Scott's Lady 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,