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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"« S. VII. June 26. '69. 



the seals Nos. 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12, we find either 

 bar', or noue sa^, the form which, as I suggest, 

 first led to the reading Snrum. 



John Gouoh Nichols. 



^epXiti to :^{nar CEutrietf. 



Darkness at Mid-day (2"^ S. iii. 366. ; iv. 139.) 

 — As n senuel to my still latent (genus irritahile !) 

 reply to this Query, I oflcr you the following from 

 the Navorscher, vol. ix. p. 80. : — 



" The Algemeene Vadcrlavd'nche Letteroefeningen for 

 1804 contain, in their Mettgelwer/t, pp. 727—729, an Ex- 

 tract from a Letter of Henri/ JJrintotve, commanding the 

 SAip Poole, It is dated Mtramichi, .Juno 28, 1804, and 

 says : — 



" ' On my voyage hither [from Newfoundland to 

 Miramichi in Now* SroHnnd] I met witli a strange occur- 

 rence, whirli, mctliinks, must have been noticed in some 

 ports of Newfoundland too, albeit the people here did 

 rot see on}'tliing of it. It happened on Sunday, the 17th 

 of this month, and about two miles South of the Island 

 St. Peter. 



" • At dawn it was dark and mistj' ; the sun rose like a 

 ball of fire, and imiuediatcly disappeared in an olTusca- 

 tion of dense, dark, red and yellow clouds. At eight 

 o'clock I hardly was able to breakfast without a candle. 

 At intervals it lightened a little; this lasted till eleven 

 o'clock, when it became quite dark, so much so, that I 

 could not see a whit more on the compass, than in a very 

 obscure night at midnight and without a light. My 

 cook had to light a candle to see whether the dinner was 

 cooking, and the fire had a pale or rather a purple hue. 

 During nearly twenty minutes it remained perfectly dark, 

 after which it began to clear up a little in the North. 

 The Isle of St. Peter appeared as the land does in the 

 night, when the moon gets rid of a thick black cloud, 

 which hangs over the country, whilst, seemingly, a yard 

 or two of clear sky are separating the earth from the 

 higher regions, and, for the rest, the horizon is as dark as 

 pitch. Pending the whole day, the clouds had a blood- 

 red and yellow colour. Rain it did not, and a faint 

 breeze was blowing from the W.N.W. All my crew were 

 frightened. It was a grand, but appalling sight. I be- 

 lieve you'd have liked to witness it too.' " 



Mr. S. V. W., whose communication to the 

 Navorscher I partly translated, farther refers the 

 curious to the passage just quoted. 



J. H. VAN LeNNEP. 



Zeyst 



Parliamentary Representation (2""* S. v. 333.) — 

 Tho following instance of five generations of a 

 family in direct lineal descent, and of the same 

 Christian and surname, having successively repre- 

 sented one borough, is, I believe, without parallel. 

 In 1727, Charles Tottenham, Esq. (1.), was elected 

 one of the Members for the borougli of New Ross ; 

 he continued to represent it until his death in 

 1758, — he was the individual known as " Totten- 

 ham in his Boots." His son, Charles Tottenham 

 (2.), was Member for the same borough for some 

 years ; and was succeeded by his son Charles 

 Tottenham (3.), who represented it for thirty-two 



years. Shortly after the Union with Great Bri- 

 tain, by which New Ross lost one Member, Charles 

 Tottenham (4.), son of the last, became Member ; 

 he remained in Parliament for a few years only. 

 His son, Charles Tottenham (5.) is the present 

 representative, and was elected first in 1832, and 

 afterwards in 1856, 1857, and 1859. Y. S. M. 



The Tin Trade of Antiquity (2"'' S. vi. 209.) — 

 As I think it but fair that, if a correspondent 

 apologises for his scribble (which I do), the Editor 

 of a paper, as " N. & Q.," should give him an op- 

 portunity to correct such misprints as spoil the 

 bearing of a whole article, I again transmit the 

 following : — 



My indistinct writing, and perhaps the Edito- 

 rial holiday- making, have occasioned misprints in 

 my communication which I am fain to redress. I 

 wrote : 



" Perhaps the second part of this 'Ia)3a8(ov, made by the 

 Greeks into a genitive termination, is nothing but the 

 contraction of the Sanscrit dvtpa [not drtpa'] (inland), a 

 contraction also to be noticed in Diu Zohotora, explained 

 by the ancients as Atoo-Kopifiov v^o-o?, in Selen Diu (now 

 Sihala Diva \r\oi J) Iru"], Ceyhn), and in Maladiva [Ma- 

 laia Dwipa, Islands of the Malayans] and Laccadiva 

 [Lakscha Dwipn, Lake of Islands]. The Greek name' 

 thus accounted for, the genuine form Java remains. See 

 Forbiger, in Pauly's [not Frub/s'] Real Encyclopaedie," 

 caot. 



Farther : 



" In (he first-mentioned island ISnmatra'], as in Ma- 

 lacca a [not or] Mount Ophir is found, the 'Goenong' 

 Ophir or Passaman," caet. 



In the note"* (bij) is printed (6//). 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 



Zeyst. 



Two Brothers of the same Christian Name (2"" 

 S. vi. 316.) — 

 "At Bushy. Ob. 1643. 



RonKRT BLAKEWEtX. 



" Here's two in one, and yet not two but one, 

 Two sons, one tomb ; two heirs, one name alone." 

 Vide Pettigrew's Chronicles of the Tombs, p. 486. 

 T. C. Anderson, 

 II. M.'s 12th Regt. Bengal Army. 



Cockade (2""' S. vii. 158. 246. 284.421.) — Just 

 at this time, when volunteer rifle corps are making 

 such progress, no doubt others as well as myself 

 would be glad if you would inform us if the ser- 

 vant of a gentleman, not an officer, in the Victoria 

 Rifles, or any other volunteer corps, has any right 

 to wear a cockade ? Joseph. 



Inn Signs by Eminent Artists (2»* S. iv. 299., 

 &c.) — There was formerly an inn sign-board re- 

 presenting a greyhound in Surrey Street, Nor- 

 wich, painted by Cooper, the eminent animal 



• See answer to Ina, in " Notices to Correspondents," 

 " N. & Q.," 2'"» S. vi. 220. 



