Copy 1, Volume 2

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dona-cester of the Saxons : whether it were the Campo-Donum of Bede,—-a royal residence of the Northumbrian Kings, where Paulinus the Ro¬ mish Apostle of Northumbria built a Church, which with the town itself was burnt by the Welsh King Cadwallon, and his Saxon Ally the Pagan Penda, after a battle in which Edwin fell,—is not so certain ; antiquaries differ upon this point, but they who maintain the affirmative appear to have the strongest case. In the charter granted to it by Richard Coeur de Lion the town is called Danecastre. The name indicates that it was a Roman Sta¬ tion on the river Dan, Don or Dun, te so called,” says Camden, “ because ’tis carried in a low deep channel, for that is the signification of the British wrord Dan.” I thank Dr. Prichard for telling me what it was not possible for Camden to know,—* that Don in the language of the Ossetes, a Cau- cassian tribe, means water; and that in a country so remote as New Guinea, Dan has the same meaning. Our Doctor loved the river for its name’s sake; and the better because the river Dove falls into it. Don however, thou^lT not