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.
Col Hereberg. Colburn, Colebrook, Coldstream, are, no doubt, analagous
denominations.
[Greek: PH.]
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