Hume: Surname: Origin Holly, same as Holmes. Meadowlands near or surrounded by water, grassy plains; sometimes an island.

'It is evident that every man loves himself better than any other person, he is naturally impelled to extend his acquisitions as much as possible; and nothing can restrain him in his propensity but reflection and experience, by which he learns the pernicious effects of that licence, and the total dissolution of society which must ensue from it'