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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
From a conversation which I had yesterday with a worthy Fellow of our Society, it seems that the very few words which I dropped at the last Meeting respecting Coal Harbour being confounded with the singular term Cold Harbour were misunderstood, and, as a positive engagement will preclude my being at the apartments this evening, I forward you a note on the subject.
a Nearly sixty years ago, one “Nugaculus” asked, in the Gentleman's Magazine, the meaning of the term Cold Harbour. Some time afterwards, July 4th, 1793, he was answered by “Viator A.” who informed him of a small post-town in Suabia called Kalte Herberge, the literal translation of which being Cold Inn, he considered that the inference was evident.
Since this letter was read, Mr. Crossley has suggested that the name may have been derived from the Latin Caula arva (British Cobail-arbar), meaning enclosed or cleared spaces for cultivation, among the woods and forests which formerly covered England.