Oxford.
_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.