Jan. 24. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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YANKEE doodle; OU, THE KEG ROES FAREWELL TO 

 AMERICA. 



The Words and Music by T. L. 

 1. 

 " Now farewell, my Massa, my Missey, adieu ! 

 More blows or more stripes will me e'er take from you, 

 Or will me come hither or thither me go, 

 No help make you rich by de sweat of my brow. 



Yankee doodle, yankee doodle dandy, I vow, 

 Yankee doodle, yankee doodle, bow wow wow. 



2. 

 " Farewell all de yams, and farewell de salt fish, 

 De bran and spruce beer, at you all me cry. Pish ! 

 Me feed upon pudding, roast beef, and strong beer. 

 In Englan', old Englan', when me do get dere. 

 Yankee doodle, &c. 



3. 

 " Farewell de musketo, farewell de black fly. 

 And rattle-snake too, who may sting me to dye ; 

 Den Negroe go 'ome to his friends in Guinee, 

 Before dat old Englan' he 'ave a seen'e. 



Yankee doodle, &c. 

 4. 

 " Farewell de cold winter, de frost and de snow. 

 Which cover high hills and de valleys so low. 

 And dangling and canting, swearing and drinking. 

 Taring and feath'ring for ser'ously thinking. 

 Yankee doodle, &c. 



5. 

 " Den hey ! for old Englan' where Liberty reigns. 

 Where Negroe no beaten or loaded with cliains ; 

 And if Negroe return, O! may he be bang'd, 

 Chain'd, tortur'd, and drowned, — or let him be hang'd ! 

 Yankee doodle," &c. 



C. H. Cooper. 



PERPETUAL LAMP. 



(Vol. iv., p. 501.) 



The reported discovery at the dissolution of 

 monasteries of a lamp that had burned in a tomb 

 nearly 1200 years, to which your correspondent 

 B. B. adverts, is, I presume, the discovery referred 

 to by Camden (Gough's ed. vol. iii. p. 242.), where 

 he says : 



" I have been informed by persons of good credit, 

 that upon the dissolution of monasteries in the last age, 

 a lamp was found burning in a secret vault of a little 

 chapel, where, according to tradition, Constantius was 

 buried. For Lazius writes that the ancients had the 

 art of reducing gold to a consistait fluid, by which 

 they kept fire burning in vaults for a long time, and 

 even for many ages." 



The lamp of the alleged tomb of Constantius 

 Chlorus was the subject of a communication by 

 Mr. Albert Way to the York meeting of the Ar- 

 chaeological Institute in 1846, in which he com- 

 pared the ignited lamp said to liave been found 

 therein, with the story of a similar sepulchral 

 lamp in a Roman family tomb, beneath the site of 



the ancient Castellum Priscum in the province of 

 Cordova, as communicated to the Institute by 

 Mr. Wetherell of Seville. It seems well worthy 

 the attention of modern archaeologists to ascertain 

 what foundation in fact exists for the statements 

 advanced by ancient writers as to the possibility 

 of preparing a lamp that would burn for centuries 

 in the tomb. Mr. Way remarks that the curious 

 discovery communicated from Seville is unfortu- 

 nately not authenticated by the observation at the 

 time of any person skilled either in natural history 

 or archgeology. Some, however, may consider the 

 tale of the sepulchre of Chlorus, though rejected 

 by Drake and others, as not wholly unworthy of 

 consideration ; and Mr. Way suggests the possi- 

 bility of a substance having been compounded 

 which, on the admission of purer air to the tomb, 

 became for a short time ignited. An abstract of 

 his interesting communication is in the AtheruBum 

 for 8th August, 1846. The prince whose tomb is 

 said to have been discovered near the church of 

 St. Helen's on the Walls, in York, was the H. 

 Valerius Constantius who came to York about a 

 century after the death of Severus, and was father 

 of Constantine the Great. 



Let me now ask where the story may be found 

 of 



" The bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy fane, 

 And burned through long ages of darkness and storm ? " 



W. &.^Gl 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ' ''^ trJTT 



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KIBROTH HATTAVAH AND WADY MOKATTEB : • ' 

 NUM. XI. 26. CRITICALLY EXAMINED. 



(Vol. iv., p. 481. ; Vol. v., p. 31.) 



In order that the readers of " N. & Q." may 

 have an opportunity of judging for themselves of 

 the question between Dr. Todd and myself, as 

 to the identity of Kibroth Hattavah and Wady 

 Mokatteb, it will be necessary, in the first place, 

 that a more comprehensive view should be taken 

 of the camp of Israel than Dr. Todd's criticism 

 seems to imply. A population of six hundred 

 thousand, besides women and children, must have 

 occupied a larger extent of ground than a single 

 valley ; and the valley which is called par excellence 

 Wady Mokatteb would by no means suffice for 

 the accommodation of half the multitude, were it 

 not joined to many other valleys, — both sides, by 

 means of narrow windings. 



In the second place, it must be borne in mind 

 that the " Tabernacle was pitched without the 

 camp, afar ofi"from the camp" (Exod. xxxiii. 7.) ; 

 a circumstance which Dr. Todd overlooked, which 

 made him hazard the strange statement that I " did 

 not explain how Eldad and Medad were in Wady 

 Mokatteb, more than Moses and the rest of the 

 seventy." .:,,.,_. ; ..,. .: : .... - ..t.^,yi.: t.J 



