"J S. X. Aug. 25. '60.] 



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145 



extracted from Lehen und Wirken des Gen. Lieut, 

 von Riedescl, Leipzig, 1856. E. B. O'Caxlaghan. 



, Albanj', K. Y. 



Accidents fkom Lightning. — The public are, 

 as yet, uninformed of the proper treatment to be 

 adopted in cases of injury by lightning, and of the 

 wonderful and immediate relief afforded by " cold 

 affusion." 



Thus, when a person is struck down, buckets of 

 cold water should be poured on the head of the 

 person immediately ; and if the arras or legs are 

 found benumbed or paralysed, they should be im- 

 mersed in a bucket of cold water. 



The pain, however, in the loins, neck, and 

 shoulders, will in most cases' remain for -several 

 days, but by degrees will gradually go off. In 

 conclusion, I must mention the fact that the pro- 

 portion of these accidents among males and 

 females is as 8 to 1. Does the straw or silk bon- 

 net act as the lightning-conductor? According 

 to Pliny, Mizaldus, and others, houses are pro- 

 tected from lightning on which the houseleek 

 grows ; and that the electric fluid never injures 

 the holly, bay-tree, or fig-tree. J. B. N. 



©uertei*. 



Trigueras, Writings of. — I am occupied on 

 some inquiries about the mint)r Spanish poets, 

 and among them Trigueras. Ticknor mentions 

 only his attempt to reduce two plays of Pope to 

 the unities, and his poem La Riada. Maillet 

 {Nouvelle Litter atiire d'Espagne, p. 112.) says he 

 imitated Pope and invoked his spirit, son ombre, 

 in some beautiful lines. I cannot find his works 

 in the Bibliotheque, and know only La Riada and 

 a comedy Le Precipitado. As some of his writings 

 are said to bear on their title-pages " Madrid y 

 Londres," perhaps they may be in the British 

 Museum. If any of your correspondents, when 

 there, will look and tell me the titles, and espe- 

 cially the invocation to Pope, I shall be much 

 obliged. C. Tardy. 



Paris. 



Open Town-Fields. — The Rev. J. Eastwood, 

 Eckington, Derbyshire, will be glad of any parti- 

 culars, or references to where such particulars 

 may be found, of the origin of " town-fields," di- 

 vided into numerous small allotments, generally 

 in'a high state of cultivation, but in no way fenced 

 off from each other ; also names of places-where 

 such opeft fields, not common, still exist. 



MoSHEIM AND MoRGAN. 



"Mosheim jocosely says that some interpreters of 

 Scripture have sought for the lost tribes in Nova 

 Zembla." 



The above is at page 15. of a pamphlet pub- 

 lished by M. Cooper, entitled. The Babylonish 



Captivity and its Consequences, by T. Morgan, 

 London, 1746. Is Mosheim ever jocose ; and, if 

 so, where ? Is the writer the Morgan noticed by 

 Pope in 



" Morgan and Mandeville could prate no more." 



W. D. 



Ghost in the Tower. — Is there not a ghost 

 story connected with the Tower of London ? and 

 what is it ? Has not the ghost, or appearance, 

 been seen once at least during this century, and 

 with fatal results ? K. B. 



Paintings. — I possess a much- admired painting 

 5x4, representing a ruined bridge and running 

 brook, by the margin of which last sits a medi- 

 tating female figure, the whole overshadowed by 

 dark trees, between the overhanging boughs of 

 which is seen a distant landscape, whose most 

 prominent feature is a rocky headland, and the 

 sky tinted with the glow of the last rays of the 

 setting sun. It is signed in right-hand corner 

 "G. S.," date 16(44 apparently). Qu. Whose 

 signature is this ? Connoisseurs have declared it 

 to be by Swaridaveld, sometimes called the Hermit 

 of Italy. Wanted, some particulars respecting the 

 life and pictures of this artist, whose name is 

 quite strange to me, and I have in vain endea- 

 voured to obtain a Pilkington which might en- 

 lighten me. I also own an unsigned painting, 

 cattle, water, and landscape, said to be by Ibbet- 

 Bon, a comparatively modern artist. Some par- 

 ticulars respecting him and his works ? 



J. F. N. H. 



Bishop Bayles. — In a farm-house in Suffolk 

 there exists a good oil painting, which tradition 

 says is the portrait of Bishop Bayles. On the 

 picture is the date 1624, and £et. 68. Any in- 

 formation respecting this prelate (if- there ever 

 was one of the name) will greatly oblige 



Herus Fratee, 



" Every Man is convinced," and " Every man 

 thinks he can drive a gig before he tries it, ma- 

 nage the woman he may be desirous of calling his 

 own previous to marriage," &c. In using the 

 above proverb, saying, or what you will, there is 

 often tacked a list of feats alike easily carried 

 through in imagination, but impracticable in per- 

 formance, to those mentioned of the gig and the 

 lady. Can any of the correspondents of " N. & 

 Q." favour me with such a list, and at the same 

 time state to what or whom we owe the origin of 

 the saying, the friend from whom I had it having 

 unluckily forgotten the exact terms in which it 

 was couched? K. 



Arbroath. 



'Rev. Benj. Rudge was born 8 Nov. 1725? 

 died 30 June, 1807, aged eighty-one, having held 

 the rectory of Wheatfield, Oxon, for fifty-seven 

 years. He was of Winchester School and Uni- 



