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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 31., Aug. 2. '66. 



" hooka peue," to drink the hooka ; and who like- 

 wise swallow the smoke, and breathe it out 

 through the nostrils. E. E. Btng, 



3R«jpItci t0 Minax H^utvitS, 



Portraits of Swift (2"'^ S. ii. 21.)— I am not able 

 to say (writinor from the country) whether, as 

 G. N. states, Faulkner (not Faulkener) printed 

 an edition of Swift in 1734 ; but I have his edi- 

 tion of 1735, which makes no allusion to a former 

 edition. My edition contains, in the 4th volume, 

 the print that G. N. seems to allude to, but it 

 differs from his description : first, in having Vert 

 for Vertue, the engraver's name ; and secondly, in 

 being, in my opinion, a very poor performance, 

 and a peculiarly bad likeness of Swift, which is 

 the more apparent because the first volume has an 

 admirable portrait of the Dean engraved by " G. 

 Vertue," and in his very best style. If G. N. be 

 accurate in his statementSj I would guess that 

 Faulkner published his first volumes in 1734, 

 ■without Vertue's fine portrait, and republished 

 them in 173o with that plate and a new date. 

 The plate in the 4th volume, described by G. N., 

 and marked in my copy as by " Vert," was, I am 

 satisfied, not by Vertue ; but by some very in- 

 ferior artist, who was not impudent enough to 

 give Vertue's name at full length. C. 



" God save the King" (2"'^ S. ii. 60.) — A. A. D. 

 has been misinformed. No doubt can exist that 

 Dr. John Bull was the composer of this tune. It 

 stands in the volume of MS. music by Bull, 

 formerly the property of Dr. Pepusch, now of 

 Mr. Richard Clark. Mr. William Chappell is not 

 a professional musician ; and his statements upon 

 music, as abstract music, should be received only 

 so far as supported by the strongest evidence. 

 Even musicians have made great mistakes in the 

 origin and chronology of melody. Dr. Crotch, 

 who chose to fix upon one chronological date as 

 the rise of pure church-music, and another chro- 

 nological date as the period of its decline, has 

 made a ludicrous mistake in exemplifying his un- 

 tenable theory. As an example of the church 

 school in its perfection, he quotes a chant in 

 D minor, imagining it was the composition of 

 Thomas Morley of 1585, whereas it was made by 

 William Morley of 1740, a period in which, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Crotch's notion, all true church- 

 music was defunct. H. J. Gatjntlbtt. 



Approach of Vessels (2°"* S. i. 315. 418.)— In the 

 Nautical Magazine for March, 1834, will be found 

 a very interesting account of Nauscopie, or the 

 art of ascertaining the approach of vessels at a 

 great distance, by M. Bottineau. He says ; 



" This knowledge neither results from the undulation 



of the waves, nor from quick sight, nor from a particular 

 sensation; but simply from observing the horizon, which 

 bears upon it certain signs indicative of the approach of 

 vessels or land. When a vessel approaches land, or 

 another vessel, a meteor appears in the atmosphere of a 

 particular nature, visible to every eye, without any difficult 

 effort : it is not by the effect of a fortuitous occurrence 

 that this meteor makes its appearance under such cir- 

 cumstances ; it is, on the contrary, the necessary result of 

 one vessel towards another or towards land." 



R. Thokburn. 



Bottineau is the name of the person who prac- 

 tised the very curious art of foretelling the ap- 

 proach of vessels to land. He held a situation 

 under the French government, in the Mauritius, 

 towards the end of the last century, and appears 

 to have made repeated and vain efforts to gain the 

 patronage of his native government for his art, 

 but having failed to sell it to advantage, permitted 

 it to expire with him. He died in obscurity about 

 the time of the Revolution ; and it doesiiot appear 

 that any offer of his services was ever made by 

 him to the English government, or that he derived 

 any pensi^ from it. The Nautical Magazine for 

 March, 1834, contains a series of documents re- 

 specting this strange art; and in No. 115. of the 

 first series of Chamber^ s Journal will be found an 

 interesting paper upon the subject, under the 

 fanciful title of " Nautical Second-Sight." 



William Blood, 



Dublin. 



Lines on Warburton (2°'^ S. ii. 22.) — If S. W. 

 will refer to Churchill's Works, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44., 

 1844, edited by W. Tooke, he will find the verses 

 on Warburton he quotes, as written by S. Rogers 

 in Johnson's Table-Talk: 



" The first entitled to the place 



Of Honour both by gown and grace, 



Who never let occasion slip 



To take right hand of fellowship ; 



And was so proud, that should he meet 



The Twelve Apostles in the street. 



He'd turn his nose up at them all, 



And sliove his Saviour from the wall," 



Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, and D 'Israeli's 

 Quarrels of Authors, and the notes of Mr. Tooke, 

 may be usefully consulted in relation to Warbur- 

 ton and Churchill's satire. 



A good life of Warburton, embracing the lite- 

 rary history of the period, in relation to him and 

 to his immediate contemporaries, is much to be 

 desired. Spenceb Hall. 



Rawson (2"^ S. i. 452.) — G. R. C. will see a 

 pedigree of Rawson, of Bessacarr, in par. Cantley, 

 CO. York, stated to be descended from the Raw- 

 sons of Frystone, in Hunter's South Yorkshire 

 (vol. i. p. 85.). Also, at p. 321. of the same work, 

 another Rawson of Pickburn, or Pigburn, in par. 

 Brodsworth. Accounts of other families of the 

 same name are to be found in Hunter's Hallam- 

 shire (pp. 224. 267.) C. J. 



