2n* S. VIII. July 23. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to the Britons ; but they lost the battle of Cat- 

 traeth through their own lamentable imprudence 

 in feasting the night before, and in having gone 

 to battle the next morning so helplessly intoxi- 

 cated that, as Aneurin says, " they fell headlong 

 from their horses ;" and the imputation of canni- 

 balism is probably only an indication of the bitter 

 hatred and intense chagrin of the descendants of 

 the vanquished Britons. The ghost of Ethelfrith 

 and Gwrgi may safely call Aneurin into court, 

 and appeal to the Gododin for their vindication. 



The Cattraeth campaign was admirably planned, 

 and the battle would, I have no doubt, have been 

 fought successfully, more Romanoriim, but for 

 " the yellow, sweet, ensnaring mead." This battle 

 of Cattraeth is also the historical fact that under- 

 lies the reputed massacre at Stonehenge, with 

 which locality, however, the massacre, or rather 

 utter defeat, was in no way connected. 



T. Stephens. 



Merthyr Tidfil. 



G. N., if he wishes for a series of works in 

 which this custom, and other degraded ones, are 

 alluded to, would do well to consult the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Anderson's "Mission to Sumatra." (Blackwood & 

 Sons.) 184G. 



" Anthropophagy amongst the Baltacks of Sumatra " 

 (reply to a critique in the Quarterly Review (No. 67.) on 

 the above work.) Q3Ialaeea Gazette, 17th and Slst July, 

 and 14th and 28th Aug. 1827.) 



" Blackwood's Magazine," Aug. 1826. 



" Quarterly Eeview," Nos. 67. 56. 26. 55. 



Marsden's " Sumatra." 



Humboldt's " Personal Narrative." 



Rees's " Cyclopsedia." 



Hawkesworth's "Voyages to the Southern Hemi- 

 sphere." 



Myer's " Geography." 



Finlayson's " Mission to Siam." 



Lyon's " Private Journal." 



Gamble's "View of Society and Manners in the North 

 of Ireland." 



Good's " Book of Nature." 



Field's " Geographical Memoir of N. S. Wales." 



Gregoire, " des Sectes Religieuses." 



Bowdich's " Asliantee*" 



Mr. Ellis's " Sandwich Islands." 



Rev. Mr. Marsden's " Mission to New Zealand." 



Capt. Forrest's " Voyages." 



Capt. Cook's ditto. 



Bruce's, Salt's, and Pearce's " Abyssinia." 



Mariner's " Tonga Islands." 



Mi^Leod's "Voyage to Africa." 



Crawfurd's " Indian Archipelago." 



Works of Nicolo di Conti, 1449; Odoardus Barbosa, 

 1516 ; De Barros, 1563 ; Beaulieu, 1622 ; and Ludovico 

 Barthema, 1505. 



" Researches into the Physical History of Man," by J. 

 F. Pritchard. 



Miss Hamilton's " Popular Essays." 



Heyne's " Letters on Sumatra." 



Sir S. Raffles's " Minutes on the Singapore Institution." 



Dr. Leyden, on the Languages, &c., of the Indo- 

 Chinese. 



Maj, Canning, Envo3' to the States on the W. Coast of 

 Sumatra. 



Messrs. Burton and Ward's " Mission to the Baltacks 

 in 1824." 



Andrew Steinmetz's work on " Tobacco." (P. 124.) 



" Fiji and the Fijians." 



" Asiatic Journal " vol. xix. p, 94., Jan. 1825 ; and vol.. 

 ix. pp. 457-8. 



" Ledlie's Magdikine " (Agra), July, 1853. 



I shall be happy for references to any other 

 works. 



" The Andamans," Penang Gazette^ April, 1819^ 

 is another reference. 



T. C. Andehson, 

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



The writer of Biogi'aphical Memoir of the late 

 Charles Macintosh, F.R.S., Glasgow, 1847, refers 

 to the testimony of St. Jerome on the above sub- 

 ject, in a quotation from Gibbon, 8vo., London, 

 1797, vol. iv. p. 298., as follows : — 



" There seems to be little reason to doubt that in more 

 remote times in this forest (which occupied the eastern 

 part of the present city of Glasgow) was situated the 

 capital of the ' Attacoti,' alluded to by Gibbon as a valiant 

 tribe of Caledonia, the enemies and afterwards the soldiers- 

 of Valentinian, accused by eye witnesses (Jerome, &c.) 

 of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they 

 hunted the woods for prey, it is said that they attacked 

 the shepherd rather than his flocks, and that they curi- 

 ously selected the most delicate and brawny parts, both 

 of males and females, which they prepared for their 

 horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commer- 

 cial and literary town of Glasgow a race of cannibals has 

 really existed, we may contemplate in the period of 

 Scottish history the opposite extremes of savage and 

 civilised life." 



And we may venture to add that nowhere 

 would the contrast appear more conspicuous. 



G.N. 



LILAC, STEINGA ; OR PHILADELPHUS. 



(2"^ S. vii. 385. 460.) 



Although the Rev. T. Boys and Mr. Gutch 

 have both replied to Mr. P, Thompson, the infor- 

 mation they have given, although quite correct 

 so far as it goes, may not perhaps be deemed 

 quite satisfactory by that gentleman. 



In tracing the history of these names, it is only 

 necessary to refer to John Ray's Historia Planta- 

 rum, published in 1688 (vol. ii.). From it we 

 learn that both the Lilac and Mock-orange were 

 known by the name of Syringa, the former being 

 called Syringa ccerulea, the latter Syringa alba. 

 Also that the first was by some called Lilac, from 

 the Persian ; the other Philadelphus, a name given 

 to it by Athenaeus, a writer of the Alexandrian 

 school. Tournefort, in 1700, in his Institutiones 

 Rei Hei-baria, perceiving that these belonged to 

 different parts of his system founded on the corolla, 

 divided them into two genera, giving to one the 



