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Moustache worn by the Clergy (Vol. xii., p. 202.). -I cannot now refer to the "day and date" of The Times in which I read a graphic description of a "church parade" before Sebastopol. The clergyman, in black skull-cap, and flowing beard and moustache, preaching to his equally hirsute congregation, unmoved by bursting shells, and not even deigning to allow the possibility of "battle and sudden death" to disturb the calm diction of the practical sermon, which might have been with equal propriety addressed to a congregation of sleepy Londoners. JAMES GRAVES.

Cold Harbour (Vol. ix., p. 107.).—" Cold" is a prefix applied to Roman situations, as is "Hunger," but I doubt if it means cold. It is sometimes in the form of "Cole." It is prefixed to borough, hill, green, town, oak, ridge, and other topographical terms. It is nearly as frequently applied to ridge, a Roman road, as to harbour, a camp or castle.

Harbour is found as a termination after a local name as Cound Harbour, and Windy Harbour or Arbour.

There is no Cold Harbour, so far as I know, in Shropshire. HYDE CLARKE.

Carnac (Vol. xii., p. 205.).· Your correspondent L. M. M. R. is certainly mistaken with respect to Carnac, which is not a Cromlech, as he seems to suppose, but one of the serpent temples, still retaining, where most perfect, eleven rows of stones, occasionally about seventeen feet in height, and presumed to have extended for eleven or thirteen miles in length, up to Lochmariaker, where the largest stones are found, now prostrate. This must have been the most considerable temple of the kind in the world; and permit me, in turn, to suggest a Query or two. 1. How came the Egyptian name of Carnac to be applied to a place on the coast of Brittany? 2. What is the authority for calling these stone temples Druidical? Ancient writers tell us that the Druids lived in groves of oak, from whence they derived their name, but not that they haunted stones, which an older superstition than theirs. We

seems

generally find these stones set up in spots where oak would not grow; and the Druids are never noticed as worshippers of the serpent, but rather appear to have taught a better system of theology, and of the universe, contained in a multitude of verses, which their disciples were called upon to learn; and it seems to have been the horrid obliged the Romans, in the first instance, to precruelty, not the profaneness of their rites, which vent any of their legionaries from being present at them, and afterwards to abolish and proscribe them altogether. Cæsar notices the origin of Druidism, Disciplina in Britannia reperta; but the serpent worship must have had its origin ages before Julius Cæsar lived or wrote.

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Orkneys in Pawn (Vol. vii., p. 412.). - Reference is made to a MS. in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum (Titus C. VII., art. 71., f. 134.), "Notes on King of Denmark's Demand of the Orcades." Having examined the article, I subjoin a copy of the only note I observed on this

matter:

"Orcades, 1587.

"Frederik, King of Denmark, told Daniell Rogers that the King of Scotts dallied with him, and that he had not answered him to make restitucion of the Orcades when he sewed for his daughter Anne to be his wife; neither kept promise in shewing suche tres (lettres) as he pretended to have from the King of Denmarke, by which it should appear that he weare released from the contract by wch his predecessors were bound at all tymes to be ready

uppon the receipt of one hundred thousand gilders, to restore the Orcades unto the kingdome of Denmarke againe, wch he must needs have agayne, for that the state of his kingdome had putt him in mynde of his oath, wch he had made when he was contracted."

It is almost unnecessary to add that the King of Scots was James VI. of Scotland, first of England, married to the Princess Anne of Denmark. W. H. F.

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Harbingers of Spring (Vol. xi., p. 383.).—I think some record should be made of the paucity and fate this year of many kinds of birds which are summer visitants of England. The hirundines arrived very late; yet, after they came, many perished from cold and from lack of food. In an agricultural report from Nottingham in The Times for the first week in June, 1855, mention was made of many swallows having been found dead on the south side of woods, where they had evidently gone for shelter from the north-east winds. I know of two such cases in Norfolk; by the side of one wood, eleven dead swallows were picked up. The number of martins' nests was much fewer than usual; few houses having more than one half their usual complement, and some not even that. Cuckoos and nightingales were equally reduced in numbers.

As these birds arrived late, so they seem to take

their departure late; a friend having_seen_a cuckoo on Sept. 5, 1855. E. G. R.

History of the Post Office (Vol. xii., p. 185.).— The best book on this subject is the First Annual Report, signed by Lord Canning and Mr. Rowland Hill, issued by Eyre & Spottiswoode in February, 1855, 102 octavo pages. There is a long extract from this work in my Official Guide to the Book Post, and Newspaper Act and Orders. I believe it is not generally known, that a continuous and perfect series of documents in reference to the origin of postal communication, and its progress and development down to the present time, exists in the cellars under the General Post Office. It is a most luminous and valuable collection of historical, statistical, and official documents; and, I doubt not, would be accessible on proper application to Mr. Rowland Hill. JAMES GILBERT. 49. Paternoster Row.

"The Life of David" (Vol. xii., p. 204.). – The writer of this Note does not wish to be known, but you may rely on the accuracy of his information.

MR. BATES inquires about the author of the book entitled The History of the Man after God's own Heart. He will find an account of the book in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (vol. viii. p. 227.). Mr. Godwin, in a letter to Mr. Hutchins, dated Jan., 1762, says that the impudent pamphlet is supposed to have been written by Dodwell. That is a mistake. The real author was Archibald Campbell, eldest son of Dr. Archibald Campbell, professor of Church History at St. Andrews. The same Archibald Campbell published in the same year (1762) a letter to the Rev. Dr. Chandler, from the writer of The History of the Man after God's own Heart. He was also the author of Lexiphanes, a book written in ridicule of Dr. Johnson, and of some other light, or rather very immoral productions. His father's history was a singular one. He was not considered in his own country an orthodox writer; but an English divine obtained much credit from a work which he stole word for word from Dr. Campbell. S. T. P. Edinburgh.

"Hermippus Redivivus" (antè).—In a copy of this work, which I picked up the other day at a book-stall, is the following MS. note:

Grants from Queen Elizabeth (Vol. xii., p. 185.). - The grant in question will be certainly found at the Record Office, Carlton Ride, or the Tower. L. B. L.

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"The person whom Dr. Campbell, the author of the following work, meant to represent under the character of Hermippus Redivivus was Mr. Calverley, a celebrated dancing master, whose sister for many years kept a wellknown school in Queen's Square, London, where likewise he himself lived. There is now a picture of him in the dancing school there, drawn at the great age of ninetyone, May 28th, 1784."

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