_Cold Harbour._--Your correspondent asks whether there is a "Cold Harbour"
in every county, &c. I think it probable, though it may take some time to
catalogue them all. There are so many in some counties, that ten on an
average for each would in all likelihood fall infinitely short of the
number. The Roman colonists must have formed settlements in all directions
during their long occupation of so favourite a spot as Britain. "Cold
Harbour Farm" is a very frequent denomination of insulated spots cultivated
from time immemorial. These are not always found in _cold_ situations.
Nothing is more common than to add a final _d_, unnecessarily, to a word or
syllable, particularly in compound words. Instances will occur to every
reader, which it would be tedious to enumerate.

J.I.

After reading the foregoing communications on the subject of the
much-disputed etymology of COLD HARBOUR, our readers will probably
agree with us in thinking the following note, from a very distinguished
Saxon scholar, offers a most satisfactory solution of the question:--

With reference to the note of G.B.H. (Vol. i, p. 60.) as well as to the
very elaborate letter in the "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries"
(the paper in the _Archæologia_ I have not seen), I would humbly suggest
the possibility, that the word _Cold_ or _Cole_ may originally have been
the Anglo-Saxon Col, and the entire expression have designated _a cool
summer residence_ by a river's side or on an eminence; such localities, in
short, as are described in the "Proceedings" as bearing the name of Cold
Harbour.

The denomination appears to me evidently the modern English for the A.-S.