2»* S. N» 60., Feb. 21. '67.] 



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5ng whether any of your intelligent correspon- 

 dents can inform him how, or Avhen, the proverb 

 arose — " Once in a blue Moon." A reply will 

 greatly oblige 2. 



Arnside Tower and Helslack Toiver, Westmore- 

 land, — ^VIlat is the origin and date of erection of 

 these towers, the ruins of which are situated about 

 a mile apart in the parish of Beetham ? J. M. 



Paul Cuffce. — The beginning of the present 

 century an American free negro, with the assist- 

 ance of some individuals (Americans), fitted out a 

 vessel, with the humane and benevolent object to 

 civilise, and I believe also to christianise, African 

 negroes, and from what I have understood he 

 might be classed with Dr. Livingston, who has 

 lately created so great a sensation in this country. 

 Being in command of the vessel he was styled 

 Captain Cuffee, ami when out on a voyage he 

 visited England, and I have understood met with 

 a cordial reception, and great encouragement in 

 his most commendable endeavours. I do not find 

 any mention of him in the biographical dictionaries, 

 and request to be informed concerning him, and 

 what was his career. Homo. 



[Paul Cuffee was born in 17.59, on the island of Cutter- 

 hunker, one of the Elizabeth Islands, npar New Bedford, 

 and subsequently entered as a sailor on board a merchant 

 vessel, and made several voynj^es to the West Indies. At 

 twenty years of age he traded on his own account with 

 the people of Connecticut, and made two voyages to the 

 straits of Belleisleand Newfoundland. In 1806 he was the 

 commander of the ship Alpha, of which he owned three- 

 fourths; he manned this vessel entireh' by persons of co- 

 lour, and sailed to the land of his forefathers in the hope 

 of benefiting its natives, where he originated "The 

 Friendly Societ}' of Sierra Leone." On his visit to Eng- 

 land he met with every mark of respect from the directors 

 of The African Institution, who gave him authority to 

 carry over from the United States a few coloured persons 

 to instruct the colonists in agriculture and the mechanical 

 arts. His active benevolence to benetit his sable race 

 continued unceasing till death terminated them with his 

 life. He died on Sept 7, 181G, in the fifty-ninth j'ear of 

 his age. • His life, appended to that of Prince Lee Boo, was 

 printed at Dublin in 1822, 12mo.] 



Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, — One of the 

 most interesting autobiographies which has been 

 handed down to us is that of Ilichard Boyle, the 

 noble and first Earl of Cork, who was Lord High 

 Treasurer of Ireland, and one of the Lords Jus- 

 tices of that kingdom. It is dated the 25 ih of 

 June, 1632, and gives a most faithful detail of his 

 honourable life, wherein he says, " I have served 

 my God, Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King 

 Charles, full forty years in Ireland, and so long 

 after as it shall please God to enable me." The 

 name of this great man is reverenced in Youghall, 

 a town in the county Cork, from which on? of the 



titles as Baron of Youghall was taken. The state 

 letters written by him are all directed from 

 Youghall, 1641. In one of these letters to Lord 

 Goring he describes the wretched state they were 

 in, when the place (which was the only town the 

 English had to retire to) was in a most weak and 

 ruinous condition, &c , during the rebellion. 

 Perhaps there is no town in Ireland has more in- 

 teresting historical associations than Youghall. Its 

 church possesses monuments of the great and the 

 brave, and was founded in 1464 by Thomas Earl 

 of Desmond. Sir Richard Boyle was possessed of 

 the revenues of the foundation until 1634, when 

 Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Deputy of Ireland, 

 disputed his right to the same. The Query I have 

 to make relative to Richard Boyle, first Earl of 

 Cork, is, who is in possession of the MS. of his 

 life, dated 1632? M. (4.) 



[The manuscript of this autobiograph}- is in Balliol 

 College, Oxford, No. 341., Chartaceus, in 4to. minori, ff. 7, 

 sec. xvii. "Autobiography of Richard Boyle, Knight, 

 Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland," &c. It 

 begins, " My father Mr. Roger Boyle ; " and ends, " I was 

 made Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, and sworn the 9th 

 day of November, 1631." It has been printed in Dr. 

 Birch's Life of the Hon. Robert Boyle, Lond. 8vo. 1744, 

 pp. 3 — 1.5. ; and in The Ancient and Present State of 

 Youghall, r2mo. 1784. See also Thoresby's Ducatus Leo- 

 diensis, by VVhitaker, p. 61.] 



" Domdaniel." — Can any of your readers en- 

 lighten me on the meaning and derivation of the 

 word "Domdaniel." Cantab. 



[The Domdaniel is a Seminary of evil Magicians under 

 the roots of the sea. From this seed has grown the 

 metrical romance of Thalaba the Destroyer, by Robert 

 Southey : 



" In the Domdaniel caverns 

 Under the roots of the Ocean, 

 Met the Masters of the Spell." 



Southey says, " In the Continuation of the Arabian Tales 

 the Domdaniel is mentioned."] 



Drake Morris. — Can any of your renders fur- 

 nish me with an account of a book entitled The 

 Travels of Mr. Drake Moi-ris, Merchant in LoU' 

 don, ^c, printed for the Author by R. Baldwin 

 Rose, Paternoster Row, London, 1755 ? Where 

 could I obtain a copy ? Editionakius. 



[A new edition of this work was published in 1797 by 

 R. Dutton, Birchin Lane, London, which probably may be 

 obtained of some second-hand bookseller.] 



Rosalia. — Can any of your correspondents in- 

 form me who Rosalba was ? All the information 

 I am possessed of is, that she was a lady who en- 

 graved. I once found in some biography a few 

 remarks on her life, but I omitted to take any 

 note. Can any one tell me more of her, or where 

 I can find her life, and if her engravings are valu- 

 able ? Henri. 



[Some account of this ingenious lady will be found 

 in Chalniers's ancl Rose's Biographical Dictionaries, art, 



