1829, Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, A letter to the publisher of the Quarterly review, page 17:
a guide, in short, who after assuring them that their whole course lay along "hard ground with "a good firm footing," should present to them, and plunge them all at once into a "plashy" marsh — a "perflabilem terram," and leave them there engulphed with such a silly "old gentleman" as Solinus, and with such "fanciful and erroneous" visionaries, as Herodotus, Strabo, Ptolemy, "et hoc genus omne," all "indulging" — not "in the wildest fancies," but in the vadosity of a quicksand!
1881, John Kirby Hedges, The History of Wallingford, in the County of Berks, page 5:
Camden adds the letter "l," and writes it Gallena, as in Antoninus, considering the letter "C" was introduced by a mistake of the transcribers for the letter "G," "since the change of 'G' into 'C' was easy, they being sister letters;" and he supposes it was derived fromt wo British words Gual, Hen, signifying the old fortification, which name, in his opinion, it still retains, with the addition by our forefathers of the word "Forde," by reason of the vadosity of the river there ; its present name, Wallingford, being contracted for the Saxon Guallengaford, or, " G " and "W" being in Saxon identical, Wallengaford.
