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lation of the country, was lamenting on the barren 

 future that the twin-girl's life presented to her 

 prophetic eye. On inquiry, I found that it was 

 pojjularly believed, that, in such cases of twins 

 (i. e. where the one was a boy, and the other a 

 girl), the girl would never bear a child. 



Has this specimen of the folk lore of an agri- 

 cultural parish any sort of connexion with the 

 fact (for I have heard it repeatedly stated to be a 

 fact), that, in the case of twin calves, where the 

 one is a bull and the other a heifer, the latter 

 always proves barren. Why should it be called a 

 martin-heifer f or a free-martin ? for by these 

 two names is the twin- heifer known. This sub- 

 ject has not yet been broached in " N. & Q." ; 

 and, after referring to every book at my com- 

 mand, I can gain no information on the subject. 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



MacGillinray, a Creek Chief. — Enclosed I 

 beg to hand you an extract from the Gentleman^s 

 Magazine, and if not trespassing too much on your 

 valuable space, beg to request the insertion of a 

 few Queries in reference thereto. 



" Feb. 17, at Pensacola, Mr. MacGillivray, a Creek 

 chief, very much lamented by those who knew him best. 

 There happened to be at that time at Pensacola a nu- 

 merous band of Creeks, who watched his illness with the 

 most marked anxiety, and when his death was announced 

 to them, and while they followed him to the grave, it is 

 impossible for words to describe the loud screams of real 

 woe which they vented in their unaffected grief. He was 

 by his father's side a Scotchman of the respectable family 

 of Drumnaglass in Inverness-shire. The vigour of his 

 mind overcame the disadvantages of an education had in 

 the wilds of America, and he was well acquainted with all 

 the most useful European sciences. In the latter part of 

 his life he composed with great care the history of se- 

 veral classes of the original inhabitants of America; and 

 this he intended to present to Professor Robertson for 

 publication in the next edition of his History. The Ame- 

 rican and the European writer are now no more, and the 

 MSS. of the latter, it is feared, have perished, for the 

 Indians adhere to their custom of destroying whatever 

 inanimate objects a dead friend most delighted in. It is 

 only since Mr. MacGillivray had influence amongst them 

 that they have suffered the slaves of a deceased master to 

 live." — Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixiii., p. 767., 1793. 



1. Can I find any more detailed account of the 

 life and family of this Mr. MacGillivray ? 



2. Are his MSS. destroyed, as represented in 

 the Gent. Mag., or are they still in existence ? If 

 so, where can they be seen ? 



3. What arms do the Drumnaglass family 

 bear ? 



This and any other information on the subject 

 will be greatly esteemed by A. K. M. 



Princes Street, Cavendish Square. 



Brichwork, its Bond. — I observed last week, at 

 Poole in Dorsetshire, in the front of the London 

 Hotel, and of several other houses in the High 

 Street, a system of bond different from any I have 

 ever seen before. The bricks in the face of the 



wall appeared all headers, but I was not able to 

 discover in what manner the internal bond was 

 contrived ; but, as many of the houses were three 

 stories high, the walls must have exceeded one 

 brick in thickness. 



I should be obliged to any correspondent who 

 would inform me on this point, and would tell 

 me, whether such bonding is practised elsewhere 

 than in Poole. Tkowbl. 



" Dear Sir," or " Mi/ dear Sir ? " — Which is 

 the most friendly, which the most formal mode of 

 address, when writing to a correspondent ? I 

 have recently hfeard the most opposite opinions 

 expressed by well-educated persons. I am myself 

 unable to decide, and as I do not wish to be guilty 

 of any discourtesy to my friends, I should be glad 

 if some of the readers of " N. & Q." would take 

 the trouble to set me right on this very doubtful 

 point of etiquette. H. H. J. 



Manchester. 



Arms of Bishop Bundle. — What arms were 

 borne by Thomas Rundle, Lord Bishop of Derry 

 in 1734? He was born in the parish of Milton 

 Abbot, near Tavistock, in Devonshire, about 1686. 



J. S. R. 



Jewish Tradition respecting the Sea Serpent. — ■ 

 A short time since, in a conversation on the sub- 

 ject of the sea serpent, I was informed by a re- 

 verend gentleman present, that the Jews have a 

 tradition " that a pair of these animals were ori- 

 ginally created male and female ; but that the 

 male was consumed for food by the Jews during 

 their wanderings for forty years in the wilderness." 

 I could not obtain the authority for this tradition 

 at the time, and I have since searched for any 

 notice of it in vain. Possibly some of yoixr readers 

 may be able to enlighten me. J. Baillie. 



Robert Keyes. — Is not Mr. Jardine mistaken 

 when, in his " Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot " 

 he describes Robert Keyes as the son of Edward 

 Kaye by Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt 

 of Kettleby ? 



According to the Visitation of Huntingdonshire., 

 printed by the Camden Society, Robert Kaye, son 

 of Edward by Ann Tyrwhitt, married Christiana, 

 daughter of Will Cooper, and widow of Thos. 

 Groome ; and by the register of Glatton, where he 

 resided, it appears that the marriage took place 

 in 1583, and that Robert Kaye died in 1596. It 

 is therefore clear that he could not have been one 

 of the conspirators. 



However Lucy, sister of this Robert Kaye, 

 married John Pickering of Pitchmarsh, and died 

 in 1565, leaving issue. John Pickering married, 

 secondly, Ursula, daughter of Thos. Oxenbridge of 

 Etchingham, Sussex, and had by her, with other 

 children, Margaret, baptized May 23, 1568, who 



