... gloomy Pass, 1845

... gloomy Pass,

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At a slow step 1845

At a slow step

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[Footnote A:] To Cambridge. The Anglo-Saxons called it Grantabridge, of which Cambridge may be a corruption, Granta and Cam being different names for the same stream. Grantchester is still the name of a village near Cambridge. It is uncertain whether the village or the city itself is the spot of which Bede writes,

"venerunt ad civitatulam quandam desolatam, quæ lingua Anglorum Grantachester vocatur."

If it was Cambridge itself it had already an alternative name, viz. Camboricum. Compare Cache-cache, a Tale in Verse, by William D. Watson. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1862: