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note of their height. They are formed out of the 

 same granite as Diocletian's pillar. One which 

 was presented to the British Government lies on 

 the ground, and when I last saw it was half buried 

 by the new fortifications of Alexandria. 



I remember seeing some remarkable monoliths 

 in China : they were used in the construction of a 

 very remarkable bridge connecting two small 

 towns called Yung Lan and Loey Lan, standing 

 on opposite shores of a large lagoon or arm of the 

 sea, near Chin Chew, in the province of Fo Kieitl. 

 On referring to some notes made at the time of 

 my visit there, I find some of the blocks (grey 

 granite) measured 40 feet in length, and 3, 4, and 

 5 feet in thickness and width. The bridge — 

 which was a series of piers with these enormous 

 blocks laid from one to the other — was about half 

 a mile long and built across the lagoon, and must 

 have been a work of enormous labour. Many 

 colossal figures of Buddhist saints ornament the 

 bridge, all cut out of solid blocks of granite. The 

 two towns connected by the bridge were at one 

 time places of considerable importance, and the 

 remains of what must have been splendid temples 

 and other buildings are still to be seen. A. 



" College Recollections" (2°'' S. iii. 90. 138.) — 

 In reply to Eibionnach I beg to say, that if it be 

 true, as stated in the preface, that "they [the 

 Sketches] are published by his [the author's] 

 executor, to whom, a little before his death, he 

 intrusted his papers," the Rev. Mortimer O' Sul- 

 livan could not have been the author, inasmuch 

 as he still is, I am happy to announce, alive and 

 well. The Rev. Samuel O' Sullivan, his brother, 

 and a well-known writer, did not die for many 

 years after 1825, in which year the publication in 

 question made its appearance. Abhba. 



Pence a piece (2°'^ S. ii. 66. 1 18.) — We have an 



instance of this phrase in A Character, Panegyrid 



and Desc7'iption of the Legion Club. Dublin 



Printed : Glasgow reprinted in the year mdcclvi. 



" When the Rogues their country fleece 



They may hope for Pence a piece." 



M. N. S. 

 Composition of Fire-Balls, Sfc. (2°'i S. iii. 289.) 



— The ingredients inquired after, calefonia and 

 oyle ofegeseles, were, 1 have no doubt, rosin (co- 

 lophonia) and oil of egg-shells. The use of the 

 former as a combustible is obvious enough ; but 

 what virtue the latter could impart to the compo- 

 sition of fire-balls is not so apparent. F. C. H, 



John Locke and Freemasonry (2°'^ S. ii. 429.) 



— Allow me to add to the statement of T. C. S. 

 (Iii. 297.) that further evidence, in support of the 

 opinion that the letter said to have been written by 

 Locke is a forgery, may be found in Mr. J. O. 

 Halliwell's Early History of Freemasonry in Eng- 

 land, 1844, pp. 41—43. Chabjles Wtue. 



Canticle substituted for the " Te Deum." (2°* S. 

 ii. 370. ; iii. 145. 279.) — " When was this com* 

 posed, by whom, and who allowed its use instead 

 of the ' Te Deum ? ' " This question not having 

 yet been answered, I may state that the first 

 "parody" will be found in the works of Bonaveii- 

 ture, Psalterium B. V. Mariee, torn. vl. p. 480., 

 Moguntiffi, 1609: "Hymnus instar illius qui 

 ascribituf Ambrosio et Aug." The seraphic doc- 

 tor was nominated by Pope Clement IV. to the 

 Archbishopric of York in England, but he disin- 

 terestedly refused it« 



" The world can not believe that oblique relative prayer 



is all that is sought They say to the B. virgin^ 



Sancta Maria, not onely ora pro nobis ; but, succurre mi- 

 seris, juva pusillanimes, refove flebiles, accipe quod ofFeri- 

 mus, dona quod rogamus, excusa quod timemus." — 

 Andrewes, Opuseula, 4*°, Londini, 1629. 



BiBLIOTHECAB. ChETHAM. 



Leaning Spires, Spalding (2""^ S. iii. 257.) — 

 Your correspondent P. D. P. has, I think, taken 

 great liberties with us Spalding people. How- 

 ever, we take it in good part, and, though he calls 

 us " sleepy folks," he will, I trust, soon find that 

 we are now wide awake, and with our zealous old 

 incumbent at our head are just going both to re* 

 store our beautiful church, and to build one, if not 

 two others, our population having of late years 

 much increased. Does P. D. P. mean Mr. Buck- 

 worth, when he speaks of "Mr. Buchvater" dis- 

 mounting to go by Surfleet church? I have 

 heard the story, but am not certain of the old 

 gentleman's name. A Spalding Man. 



Detached Belfries (1*' S. vii. viii. passim.') — It 

 would appear that this is a feature of the eccle- 

 siastical architecture prevalent on the banks of 

 the Parana and Paraguay. (Vide Mansfield's Pa- 

 raguay, Brazil, and the Plate, edited by Kingsley, 

 pp. 241. 312. 377.) 



" The cathedral (at Corrientes), La Matriz, has a tower 

 standing near it, quite isolated, for the bells, which sound 

 like cracked saucepans. Another of the churches has the 

 bells hung in the open air above a stage, on which a boy 

 stands to strike them." 



" The church (at Pilar, formerly called Neembucii, in 

 Paraguay) is a neat low building with wide-spreading 

 sloping roof, and verandahs on each side, with (by way 

 of a belfry) a neat wooden open scaffold tower, about fifty 

 or sixty feet high, standing near it." 



" The capilla, or parish church (at Lambarre, about six 

 miles below Assumption on the Paraguay), is a pretty 

 little building, as all small white-washed buildings sur- 

 rounded with verdure always are, with a wooden scaffold 

 tower standing near it, and the^bells under the roof at 

 the top." 



E. H. A. 



Etherington Family (2°"> S. iii. 228.) — There is 

 a monument in Trinity churchyard, Hull, to 

 Henry Etherington and Jane his wife. The 

 former died Jan. 4, 1716, aged ninety. 



DUNELStENSIS. 



