Cam

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 662

Cam, or GRANTA, a sluggish river of England, which, rising in Essex, flows 40 miles NW. and NE. through Cambridgeshire, and falls into the Ouse 3\frac{1}{2} miles above Ely. It gives name to the town of Cambridge, where it is barely wide enough for an eight-oar to turn.

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