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was easily converted by the country people into Cra or Crau, when 
they came to annex to it their own element daz, in order to form 
a compound name. As we find Craulaw among the earliest 
forms of the name, it appears to me the proper one to receive the 
preference in an orthographical map. 
I remember only one instance, in Northumberland, where law 
has taken the form of low, which is in Harlow, this being mani- 
festly Here-hleew, the mount of the army; just as Harwich was 
Here-wic, the village of the army, and Harrow, Here-howa, the 
hill of the army. Harlow was the scene of many early military 
operations, as Harwich was a formidable Danish camp and gar- 
rison, and Harrow a height of the utmost importance to every 
army operating in the country near the Metropolis. 
I may observe that, in Domesday book, the names of places, in 
the Southern counties, now written with /ow, are found under 
the same form as now prevails in the North, namely, with daw. 
In Derbyshire, that midland region, where the whole nomen- 
clature of localities bears a striking resemblance to that of the 
North, we find the following places adverted to in Domesday 
book,—Bredilawe, Bornelaw, Patelaw, Coldlawe, Draecklawe, (the 
Dragon’s law,) and some others. 
Cliff. This word in composition as the substantive member, 
is by no means identical with our ordinary word cliff, a preci- 
pitous rock. In A. &. clif, (pl. clifu,) is a cliff or steep rock, as 
in Germ. klippe. On the other hand, we have the Icelandic or 
Old Norse klif, a steep, dificult path, and, in A. 8. clif, with the 
same sense. If I mistake not, our term cliff, as used in terminal 
composition, has reference to an ascending road or path more or 
less steep. It is well translated by the Latin clivus or acclivitas. 
It is not simply a hill, but a hill with reference to its ascent by 
men or animals. Thus, most of the places, having names termi- 
nating in cliff, in Yorkshire and elsewhere, are situated on or 
near nothing more than rising ground, up which runs a road or 
path. 
Cleedon, near Whitburn, on the old authority of Boldon book, 
was Clivedon ; pronounced probably Clevedon, and longer than 
the Southern Clifton. The latter, at least, has good claim to 
