Ben Nevis

English Etymology From en gd beinn peak + "Nevis" having an unknown etymology. Pronunciation en /ˌbɛn ˈnɛvɪs/ RP,Scotland Proper noun 1 en The highest <<mountain>> in the United Kingdom, in <<carea/Highland>>, <<cc/Scotland>> OS grid ref NN1671. en July 21, 1860 w:George Gilfillan Alpha and Omega Saturday Review (London newspaper) The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art https://archive.org/details/saturdayreviewof10unse/page/65/ 10 247 124011815 87 https://archive.org/details/saturdayreviewof10unse/page/87/ 2 But narrative, after all, is Mr. Gilfillan’s forte, and his picture of the flood is a masterpiece. First, we have the march of the animals — lions and tigers, “the solemn elephants,” the hyena, “horrible even in its transient tameness,” “the fox and lamb embracing each other” — “thick streams of reptile existence, from the serpent to the scorpion, from the boa-constrictor to the lizard, wriggling on their ark-ward way” — “overhead flights of birds, here all oracular of doom—the earnest eagle, the gloom-glowing raven, the reluctant vulture,” sweeping to their destined home. Then, we have mountains submerged and volcanoes extinguished, “Ben Nevis sunk fathoms and fathoms more beneath the waves” — “the eye of Mount Blanc darkened, Old Taurus blotted out,” the tide “rolling over the summit of Mount Everest, and violating its last particle of virgin snow” — and lastly, “some human scenes of extraordinary interest,” which Mr. Gilfillan descries amidst the surrounding confusion. Translations the mountain Macedonian: mk Бен Невис m Scottish Gaelic: gd Beinn Nibheis