Mar. 13. 1852.] 



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same word and meaning extend inland. Nor do 

 I think that knare has any aflinity with snare. C. 



In reply to your correspondent's Query, I beg 

 to submit the following, which may prove of 

 utility in tracing out the meaning of the word, 

 viz. : — Forhys Glossary by Turner, vol. i. p. 56., 

 thus has it : 



" Car, s. a wood or grove on a moist soil, generally 

 of alders." 



We have them in this country; also the term 

 " osier-cars." 



In Kersey's English Dictionary^ 1708, we have 

 thus : 



" Gnar or Gnur, a hard knot in wood." 



In Bailey's Dictionary, 1753, we have It thus : 



" Gnarr [Knorre, Teutonic], a hard knot in a tree. — 

 Chaucer." 

 May it not thus mean a knot or clump of trees?! 



It is also allied to quarry, from the French 

 carre, which signifies a bed, not only for digging 

 stones for building purposes, but also as they are 

 sometimes called, osier-beds, older-beds. 



The towns " Narborough" and " Narford" in. 

 Norfolk are so called from their being situated on 

 the river "Nar ;" the one a city or town on the 

 river ; and the other being, by means of a ford, 

 originally over it. Both were originally written 

 Nere as the prefix. J. N. C. 



Cheap Maps (Vol. v., p. 174.). — Paterfamili^ 

 is informed that a good and not expensive map of 

 Borneo has been recently published by Augustus 

 Petermann ; and a section of the Isthmus of Pa- 

 nama, showing the railway from Chargres to Pa- 

 nama, may be had of the Admiralty agent for a 

 few pence. Northman. 



English Free Toions (Vol. v., pp. 150. 206.). — 

 A short ride from Oxford will take your corre- 

 spondent J. H. Parker to one or two market 

 towns in Berks, answering to the description given 

 of the French Villes Anglaises. Wokingham 

 will afford an illustration somewhat resembling 

 Winchelsea ; the town is of triangular form, the 

 streets meeting in a central area, which contains a 

 quaint old market-house : it is within the prescribed 

 limits of Windsor Forest, and the Forest Courts 

 were formerly held there — the charter of incorpo- 

 ration has existed from time immemorial. Kt. 



Sir Alexander Cumming and the Cherokees. — 

 There is a Query by S. S. (Vol.iii., p. 39.) about 

 Sir Alexander Cumming and the Cherokees, which 

 I do not think has yet had any reply. Vol. iii., 

 p. 152., a replyist refers to a work in which is an 

 autobiography of the baronet. I have not had an 

 opportunity to refer to that, but I suspect it would 

 not meet the question, as Sir Alexander Cumming 

 of Coulter, who was created a Nova Scotia ba- 

 ronet 1695, and Alexander Cumming, the King of 

 the Cherokees, were diverse persons. The last 



died in 1775, and according to Lysons was buried 

 at East Barnet. At vol. iv. p. 20., under Barnet, 

 Lysons gives the following account bearing on the 

 Cherokees : 



" In 1729 he (Camming) was induced, by a 

 dream of Lady Cumming's, to undertake a voyage to 

 America, for the purpose of visiting tlie Clierokee 

 nations. He left England on the 13th of September, 

 and arrived at Charlestown on the oth of December. 

 On the 11th of March following he set out for tha 

 Indians' country; on the 3rd of April, 1730, he wa» 

 crowned commander and chief ruler of the Cherokee 

 nations, in a general meeting of chiefs at Nequisee 

 among the mountains ; he returned to Charlestown the 

 1 3th of April with six Indian chiefs, and on the 5th of 

 June arrived at Dover; on the 1 8th he presented the 

 chiefs to George 11. at Windsor, where he laid his 

 crown at his Majesty's feet ; the chiefs also did homage, 

 laying four scalps at the king's feet, to show that they 

 were an overmatch for their enemies, and five eagles' 

 tails as emblems of victory. These circumstances are 

 confirmed by the newspapers of that time, which are 

 full of the proceedings of the Cherokees whilst in 

 England, and speak of them as brought over by Sir 

 Alexander Cumming. Their portraits were engraved 

 on a single sheet. In 1766 Archbishop Seeker ap- 

 pointed him one of the pensioners in the Charter- 

 House, where he died at a very advanced age." 



His son, who succeeded him in the title, became 

 deranged in his intellects, and died about three 

 years ago, in a state of indigence, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Red Lion Street, Whitechapel. He 

 had been a captain in the army : the title became 

 extinct at his death. C. G. 



Junius (Vol. iii., p. 411. ; Vol. v., p. 159.). — As 

 in No. 120. J. R. assumes the acrimonious bearing 

 of M. J. in No. 82., I am induced to refer to the 

 stale, flat, and unprofitable question of the au- 

 thenticity of the Letters of Junius. If those gen- 

 tlemen will refer to No. 82., p. 412., fifth line from 

 the bottom, and read " who once " for " and once,'* 

 they will find any acrimony unnecessary ; and that 

 the use of the word '■'■and''' was an accidental 

 error. This useless riddle has occupied too much 

 of the time of able and of idle men, on what is, 

 moreover, a worthless subject. Dr. Johnson, ia 

 his paper on the " Falkland Islands," has given a 

 severe but just criticism on Junius, and truly says, 

 that most readers mistake the " venom of the shaft 

 for the vigour of the bow." Junius has laid down 

 no great principle, illustrated no political truth, 

 nor given any clear and irrefutable proof of con- 

 temporaneous history. To attribute reprehensible 

 motives always shows lowness and vulgarity of 

 mind. Junius gives one the idea of a democratic 

 ruff mounted on stilts going, from natural predi- 

 lection, through the mud and dirt, and splashing it 

 wantonly, so as to bespatter and annoy a few, and|to 

 excite the attention and surprise of many ; but 

 never to produce a conviction of being just and true 

 on any one. — Itequiescat in pace. .^gbotus. 



