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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. VII. Feb. 19. '59. 



believe that this plausible interpretation was Lu- 

 cian's own invention. 



The conclusion seems to be, that De Quincey 

 was wrong in imputing plagiarism to Coleridge, 

 who simply remembered what he had read at 

 school ; but that De Quincey's error in believing 

 a line, so often quoted as Pythagoras's, to have 

 been one of the Golden Verses was very pardon- 

 able. Possibly your correspondent neither recol- 

 lected that line, nor the passages to which I have 

 referred, in Lucian. E. C. H. 



Smelt Family (2°'^ S. vl. 432.) - The family of 

 Mr. Smelt mentioned in Madame d'Arblay's Me- 

 moirs belonged to the North Riding of Yorkshire. 

 Morris Robinson, Baron Rokeby, succeeded his 

 father, Matthew, Nov. 30, 1800; Thomas, of 

 Gray's Inn a barrister, married Frances, daughter 

 of Leonard Smelt of Kirby Fleethum, county of 

 York, and died in 1643. Langton, Leases, and 

 Kirby Fleetham, belonged to William Smelt, 

 father to the Mr. Smelt spoken of in the Diary. 

 He sold Leases to Mr. Marriott, and Langton to 

 Nathaniel Cholmley of Howsham in the county 

 of York, who left it to his wife Jessy, daughter 

 of Leonard Smelt, and she sold it to Mr. Bethell. 



William Metcalf, Esq., married Ann Smelt, 

 daughter of the above William Smelt of Leases, 

 and Miss Cayley, sister to the Recorder of Hull, 

 and sister to the Russian Consul at Petersburg 

 in the time of the Empress Catherine, with whom 

 he was a great favourite ; their daughter married 

 Count Poggenpohl, and their daughter married the 

 Rev. John Courtney. 



The children of William Smelt of Leases, who 

 married Miss Cayley, were, William, who married 

 Ursula Hankin, died before his father about the 

 year 1752, (leaving issue — William, who married 

 Miss Stanhope) ; Cornelius, who married Miss 

 Offley, and was Lieut.- Governor of the Isle of 

 Man many years ; Mary, who married J. Courtney 

 of Beverley ; Dorothy, who married Sir Thomas 

 Frankland, Bart., of Thirkleby Park in Yorkshire. 

 Leonard Smelt, mentioned by Madame d'Arblay, 

 married Jesse Campbell ; he died in 1800, leaving 

 issue Dorothy and Jessy. The former married H. 

 ('holndey of Howsham, county of York, the latter 

 Mr. Goulton of Walcot in Lincolnshire. Neither 

 left any children. A. B. 



Drying and Keeping Seaweeds (2^^ S. vii. 69.) — 

 The instructions for laying out and drying sea- 

 weeds, to be found in Dr. Landsborough's Popular 

 Jlisfory of British Seaweeds, are as good as any 

 that can be given. And the common blotting- 

 paper recommended by him is preferable to other 

 drying papers, from the perfect smoothness of its 

 texture. The rougher drying papers, though ex- 

 cellent for ferns and seaweeds, do not answer for 

 plants that require to be laid out on wet paper, as 

 the latter receives (during the process of pressure) 



the marks of all the irregularities of surface on 

 the drying paper. 



The other part of Q. (I.)'s Query is more diffi- 

 cult to answer. But Dr. Landsborough's Popular 

 History is a perfectly safe guide as far as it goes. It, 

 however, does not contain scientific descriptions of 

 all tlie British plants, as is the case in Dr. Har- 

 vey's invaluable Manual of British Algce. 



A thoroughly rudimentary work on the subject 

 appears to be still a desideratum, but I hope and 

 intend that this want shall be supplied ere long. 



Margaret Gatty, 



Good directions for drying and keeping sea- 

 weeds may be found in a little book published by 

 Van Voorst, written by Dr. Cocks of Plymouth, 

 and entitled The Seaweed Collectors Guide, Lond. 

 1853. W. H. H. 



Trin. Coll. Dublin. 



Passage in Burke (2°'^ S. vi. 347.) — I do not 

 know the passage in Burke; there is something 

 very like it in Demosthenes : — 



" 'AAV eo-Tir, S> Trpbs tov Aids, oo-tis eS ^poyiav iie. rmv ovofii- 

 Tiav »tJ.a\Kof fi TiSv Trpayixdroiv rbi' ayoVT eip-qfrfv, rj jroKeiiOvvB 

 eauTcp, (TKeif/aiT av ; ovSels S^irov." — Philippica, lii. C. 3., ed. 



Dobson, i. 205. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Southeys " The Holly Tree " (2"'' S. vii. 26.) — 

 AVhile pointing out the mistake of Southey, E. K. 

 does not satisfactorily correct it. He asserts that 

 the old leaves of the holly are everywhere hard 

 and sharp-pointed ; and that the young leaves are 

 all soft and tender, equally so at the bottom as at 

 the top of the tree. I fear he has been an ob- 

 server less superficial than Southey ; for he has 

 not correctly represented the case of the holly- 

 leaves. The real fact is, that where the leaves 

 are found without prickles, the tree is old, or the 

 shoots weak. When the tree is in full vigour, the 

 leaves are always prickly, whether high up or low 

 down on the tree. Also where a branch has been 

 cut back, it will shoot out again with strong 

 prickly leaves ; even when leaves without prickles 

 prevail all around it, and the branch itself had be- 

 fore borne such. The young leaves are certainly 

 soft and tender, but whether they are prickly or 

 not does not depend upon their age, but upon the 

 strength and vigour of the tree or branch pro- 

 ducing them. F. C. H. 



Col Dillon (2"'^ S. vii. 68.) — Your correspon- 

 dent, PoMicAN, inquires particulars concerning 

 Dillon, who was Colonel in the French ser- 

 vice in 1783. I presume the person he alludes to 

 is Arthur Dillon, born 1750 ; and who was em- 

 ployed with his regiment in the West Indies in 

 1777. He was subsequently made Governor of 

 Tobago, where he remained three years. In 1789 

 he was elected deputy to the States General. 

 Being strongly attached to the Royal cause, he 



