There is a discussion of filthy watercourse names in Rick Beeman's EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN BACK COUNTRY (1984), but it includes no information about the 19th-century renaming of them, which gave them more "modest" names. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Visit the Library of Virginia's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html