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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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terms of malediction are confined to the words 

 " in the sweat of thy face," which is equivalent 

 to a condemnation to hard labour : and secondly, 



the word translated bread (QH^ lecheni) in the 

 Hebrew text, like Spros, its equivalent in Greek, 

 is by no means confined to cereal productions 

 (Matt. vi. 11.; Theocritus, xxi. 45.), and in this 

 particular passage (Gen. iii. 19.) means food ge- 

 nerally, and elsewhere, both for men and animals 

 (Lev. iii. 11. ; 1 Sam xx. 27. ; Ps. xli. 10., cii. 5., 

 cxxxvi. 25., cxlvii. 9. ; Prov. xxvii. 27.) ; and 



fruit has the same name (^p?.) in Jeremiah (xi. 

 19.) So in Arabic, ^^, lecTim, means ^esh ; the 



radical idea being something slain ; hence nionpp, 

 milchamah, in Hebrew (a formative from lechem) 

 means n battle, wherein men are slaughtered. 

 After the art of bread-making had been invented, 



the different kinds were also termed DH?, lechem, 

 and they consisted of thin pancakes or biscuits, 

 such as our oat-cakes, which were broken, and 

 not cut, like our loaves of soft bread. (Isaiah 

 Iviii. 7. ; Lam. iv. 4. ; Mat. xiv. 19., xxvi. 26.) 

 But there is no ground for the supposition that 

 such bread was made or known in Paradise, as 

 the expression of the Reviewer implies. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



SNUFF-BOX PRESENTED TO GEOKGE IV. 



As I do not pretend to be acquainted (though I 

 intend to be) with the contents of all the nineteen 

 volumes of the two series of " N. & Q.," I apologise 

 for sending you the following (and thus occupying 

 your valuable time) if it has appeared before : if 

 not, it is a relic well worthy of a permanent place 

 in " N. & Q." In the Historical Account of King 

 George IV.'s Visit to Scotland (Oliver & Boyd, 

 Edinburgh, 1822), at pp. 312-3., will be found an 

 account of the snuff-box presented to him by Mr. 

 Daniel Craig of Helensburg, through Sir Walter 

 Scott: — 



"Tlie body of tlie box is made of sycamore-tree, with 

 an invisible hinge of the kind at present (1822) so much 

 admired, and the lid of it inlaid with authenticated spe- 

 cimens of several varieties of wood, most of which are 

 well known in Scotland, and celebrated in Scottish song. 

 These are so arranged as to shade and relieve each other 

 by their beautiful diversity of colour. In the centre is a 

 piece of the Cruikston yew, mentioned in history as the 

 favourite of the unfortunate Queen Mary. Around this 

 are the following : the Torwood-oak (of Stirlingshire), 

 whose decayed trunk afforded shelter from his pursuers 

 to the brave Wallace ; the Trysting-tree, near Roxburgh 

 Castle, celebrated in the border feuds, and mentioned in 

 the novel of Rob Roy ; the Elderslie-yew, which tradi- 

 tion reports to have been planted by Sir William Wallace 

 on his uncle's estate of that name in Renfrewshire ; the 

 Bush above Traquhair ; Birk of Invermav ; Thorn above 

 the Well ; Broom of the Cowden Knows"; Alloway Kirk 



oak, — with all of which the admirers of our Scottish 

 poetry are familiar j — Elm of Waterloo, under which the 

 Duke of Wellington stood during the battle; the Victory, 

 part of the anchor-stock of Lord Nelson's flag-ship of that 

 name. The whole of these are surrounded by a border of 

 black oak from the ship Florida, which belonged to the 

 Spanish Armada, and wrecked off Tobermory in the Is- 

 land of Mull, 1588. On the bottom of the box, outside, 

 the words and music of ' Auld Langsyne ' are painted in 

 a style of uncommon neatness." 



His most gracious majesty was pleased to ac- 

 cept this unique gift, and to request Sir Walter 

 Scott to convey his thanks to the donor of it. 

 Is there any account of the subsequent fate of this 

 box ? T. C. Anderson, 



H.M.'s 12th Regt. Bengal Army. 



8. Warwick Villas, Maida Hill, W. 



FLORENCE WILSON : ERASMUS *. JOHN OGILVIE, 

 PARSON OF CRUDEN : FORBES OF TOLQUHON. 



So little is known of the early history of emi- 

 nent Scotsmen, that any contribution on the sub- 

 ject is usually acceptable. Florence Wilson is 

 known as the author of a beautiful treatise in 

 Latin, De Tranquillitate Animi. He came from 

 Aberdeen, and went abroad.* Some letters of his 

 will be found in the Bannatyne Miscellany (vol. i.), 

 with a prefatory notice from the able pen of 

 David Laing, Esq. 



Since their publication another letter, now in 

 the possession of the writer of this notice, has 

 been discovered written on the fly-leaf of the edi- 

 tion of Erasmus's Apothegmata, 4to. 1533, pre- 

 senting the volume to his friend John Ogilvie, 

 parson of Cruden, in Aberdeenshire. This volume 

 had been for two hundred and fifty years in the 

 library of the family of Forbes of Tolquhon, and 

 bore on the title the autograph of " Williame 

 Forbes of Tolquhon, 1588." 



This gentleman was a great book collector ; 

 and the very rare and curious volumes which re- 

 cently came from the north, and were disposed of 

 in detached portions by Mr. Nisbet in Edinburgh 

 at various times, make it a matter of regret that 

 the library was not sold in its entire state with a 

 proper descriptive catalogue. 



Among other curiosities was a beautiful volume 

 which had belonged to the Earl of Bothwell, the 

 husband of Queen Mary, in the original admira- 

 ble binding, with the arms of the owner as Lord 

 High Admiral of Scotland stamped on the boards. 

 It was a French treatise on mathematics, and sold 

 for 13^. 13s. Subsequently the work of Erasmus 

 above-named was acquired by the writer, who 

 accidentally had recognised the letter of Wilson, 

 who presented the work to Ogilvie ; who, in re- 

 turn, is requested to send a little nag, " eque- 

 leiim," as Wilson proposes to go to the country, 



[* See"N. &Q." P'S.ii. 311.; iii. 29.— Ed.] 



