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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<» S. VII. Mat 28, '59. 



persona, mask or character of the Father, of the 

 Son, and of the Holy Ghost, the word v-trSffraais 

 well represents such appearance or manifestation 

 (according to the Athanasian Creed) of the three 

 several persons or characters, and carries out also 

 the original idea of .standing under. The Greeks 

 have another word, often met with in Aristotle 

 and the metaphysicians, ovo-ia, which we translate 

 substance ; but which does not convey the notion 

 of standing under, meaning existence, from oma, 

 being. T, J. BucKtos. 



Lichfield. 



COGLAN S ART OF MEMORY. 



(2"'> S. vii. 257. 304.) 



Your correspondent F. C. H. (ante, p. 304.) says 

 " Nearly fifty years ago " he attended I'ectures on 

 memory by a respectable man whose name was 

 " Colgan, or something like it," and " that he had 

 used his system ever since with great satisfaction," 

 &c. I also attended lectures on mnemonics pre- 

 vious to the year 181.5, given by a gentleman of 

 the name of Coglan, not Colgan, and which I take 

 to be the same person that F. C. H. refers to. 

 Mr. Coglan was an itinerant lecturer, and had 

 obtained permission from the Princi[>al of the 

 University of King's College, Old Aberdeen, to 

 give lectures for a few evenings in one of their 

 halls, and it was during those lectures that I be- 

 came his pupil. He was a clear-headed clever 

 man, and a pleasing lecturer. I have never heard 

 that his "system" was published. Soon after the 

 time of which I am writing, Mr. Coglan settled in 

 Livex'pool, not as a lecturer, but as a public bath- 

 keeper. About the same time Mr. Sadler of bal- 

 loon notoriety also kept public baths in Liverpool. 

 Some time afterwards Mr. Coglan extended his 

 baths to the river. He procured a large vessel, 

 and converted her into a floating- bath. It was 

 anchored in the Mersey between Seacombe and 

 Liverpool, and for many years was well frequented 

 by the inhabitants from either shore, and a few 

 people of note from town. Among the latter was 

 the well-known Mr. Egerton Smith of the Liver- 

 pool Mercury and Kaleidoscope. He visited the 

 bath daily, and with other literati and an artist or 

 two enjoyed the summer's evenings on deck in the 

 open river. There was, besides other apartments, 

 a spacious room below, where refreshments could 

 be procured, and where many an evening have 

 Messrs. Smith, Coglan, & Co. enjoyed their stout 

 and cigars. 



On the "floating-bath" many subjects were 

 discussed that afterwards appeared in print, and 

 inventions were suggested and perfected at these 

 evening meetings. 



Among others, Mr. Egerton Smith invented his 

 celebrated cork collar used by bathers and by per- 

 sons going to sea, and which has saved many lives. 



Mr. Smith in some things was in advance of tlie 

 age in which he lived. You will have observed 

 in the article upon "Cheap Literature" in the 

 British Quarterly for this month that Mr. Smith 

 was the first to introduce cheap periodicals in 

 England. The Kaleidoscope was published by 

 hifti at threepence a number. It contained arti- 

 cles on science, historj', the Belles Lettres, ^"c, 

 and, according to the JReview, was tbe'.fft-ecursor of 

 all the cheap periodicals that have followed. Mr. 

 Coglan continued in .the closest friendship with 

 Mr. Smith up to the close of their lives. I forget 

 which died first, but the other soon followed, and 

 they sleep in the same burying-gi-ound — the Low- 

 hill Necropolis. 



Mr. Coglan became a sharebroker before his 

 death. He had many good qualities, was a shrewd 

 and able man, and deserves to be remembered. 



W. B. S. 



MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ROY. 



(2»'i S. vii. 358.) 



I wish to inform your correspondent Abhba, 

 who inquires respecting Colonel (afterwards Ma- 

 jor-General) Hoy, that the interesting document 

 in his possession, entitled " Observations made bv 

 Colonel Roy during a short Tour in Iceland, 1766," 

 has not appeared in print. Anythipg by Roy 

 must be valuable; and it is to be lipped that 

 Abhba will not allow what he has had the good 

 fortune to procure, to remain in its present state 

 of comparative obscurity. 



Many particulars may be found in the yearly 

 Army Lists, from about 1750 to 1790, Roy's pro- 

 motions being duly recorded. lie was Deputy- 

 Quarter-Master-General in England, Major-Ge- 

 neral (October 19, 1781), and Colonel of the 30th 

 regiment (November 15, 1786), still holding the 

 first-mentioned appointment. Particulars of his 

 death, and a biographical sketch, appear in the 

 Gentleman s Magazine for July, 1790, p. 670. No 

 mention of him is made in any Army List subse- 

 quent to that year; and, besides, he was succeeded 

 in the colonelcy of his regiment, in the month of 

 July, by Sir Henry Calder, Bart. 



Watt, in his Bihliotheca Britannica, enumerates 

 several publications by him, but he does not in- 

 clude his " Observations in Iceland." I have 

 searched the library of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 where there is a very fine copy of his Military 

 Antiquities of the Itomans in Britain, royal folio, 

 London, 1793. It is a posthumous publication, 

 the MS. having been presented after his death to 

 the Society of Antiquaries ; and I may safely say 

 that it does no little credit to the author, and to 

 those who had discernment enough to commit it 

 in so handsome a shape to the judgment of the 

 public. 



I do not know to what family he belonged : but 



