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'The river nearly surrounds the chief city of this province, as if it intended to make an island. This city stands on a hill, which is why the Saxons called it Dunholm: Bede says that they called a hill dun and a river island a holm. From this name, the Latin writers have made Dunelmum, the Normans Duresme; but the common people (incorrectly) name it Durham.' William Camden's account of Durham, which he calls the Bishopric of Durham, offers a fascinating picture of this unique English county as it was at the beginning of the seventeenth century.