d of the duck-hunting which was one of the sports of the
common people.

As time went on and London became larger and more crowded, the
fashionable people began to go away each summer to drink the waters at
Bath and Tunbridge Wells. But in London itself there were several
springs and wells whose waters were supposed to be good for people's
health, and these have given us some of the best-known London names.
Near _Holywell Street_ there were several of these wells; and along
_Well Walk_, in the north-west suburb of Hampstead, a procession of
gaily-dressed people might regularly be seen in Charles II.'s time
going to drink the waters. _Clerkenwell_ also took its name from a
well which was believed to be mediaeval and even miraculous.
_Bridewell_, the name of the famous prison, also came from the name of
a well dedicated to St. Bride.

Many of the great streets and squares of the West End of London have
taken their names from the houses of noblemen who have lived there, or
from the names of the rich owners of property in these parts.
_Northumberland Avenue_, opening off Trafalgar Square, takes its name
from Northumberland House, built there in the time of James I.
_Arundel Street_, running down to the Embankment from the Strand, is
so called in memory of Arundel House, the home of the Earl of Arundel,
which used to stand here. It was there that the famous collection of
statues known as the "Arundel Marbles" was first collected. They were
presented to Oxford University in 1667.

Just near Charing Cross there is a part of old London called the
_Adelphi_. This district takes its name from a fine group of buildings
put up there in the middle of the eighteenth century by the two famous
brother architects Robert and William Adam. _Adelphi_ is the Greek
word for "brothers," but the name seems very peculiar applied in this
way.

The name of _Mayfair_, the very centre of fashion in the West End,
reminds us that in this magnificent quarter of London a fair used to
be held in May in the time of Charles II. This gives us an idea of how
the district must have changed since then. _Farm Street_, in Mayfair,
has its name from a farm which was still there in the middle of the
eighteenth century. The ground is now taken up by stables and
coach-houses. _Half-Moon Street_, another fashionable street running
out of Piccadilly, takes its name from a public house which was built
on this corner in 1730.

These old names give us some idea o