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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Symhols of Saints (2"'i S. li. 288. 339.)— It lias 

 occurred to me, since my communication, at the 

 page last quoted, that the figure in question may 

 have been intended for St. Mary Magdalen of 

 Pazzis. I have an engraving of that saint, where 

 she appears in her religious habit, and presses a 

 cross to her breast, but it is quite plain. She is 

 also crowned with thorns, and is adoring before 

 the Blessed Sacrament, from which rays of light 

 are darting upon her. F. C. H. 



lllusti-ations of the Simplon (2""^ S. ii. 336.) — I am 

 anxious to correct an erroneous description of the 

 order of the plates illustrating the pass of Mount 

 Simplon. The engravings, I should have said, 

 begin with the town of Brigg, soon after the com- 

 mencement of Napoleon's grand road, and they 

 end with the beautiful and picturesque town of 

 Sesta Calende at the end of the Lake Major, and 

 a short distance from the termination of the grand 

 road, which begins at Leuk, and ends near 

 Somma, being about 120 miles in its whole length. 



F. C. H. 



Scotch Darien Company and Equivalent Com- 

 pany (2°'* S. ii. 330.) — There is an article in 

 vol. i. of the Retrospective Review^ published by 

 Kussell Smith in 1853, on " The Scottish Colony 

 of Darien, 1698 — 1700," where your correspon- 

 dent X. Y. Z. will find some interesting informa- 

 tion, and references to many authorities. 



K. P. D. E. 



X. Y. Z. will probably meet with some of the 

 information he desires in the late Eliot Warbur- 

 ton's Darien. J. Eastwood. 



" The right men in the right places " (2"** S. i. 

 294. 310. 401. ; ii. 317.)— It seems to be unknown 

 to the writers on this subject, that the origin 

 was clearly explained some time ago by Punch, 

 who occasionally assumes a graver tone. He gave 

 an extract from the writings of Bishop Berkeley, 

 in nearly these words : 



" The world is like a board with holes in it, and the 

 Fquare men have got into the round holes, and the round 

 into tlie square." 



An ingenious game suggested hereby has just 

 been brought out by Mr. Myers of Leadenhall 

 Street, with the above attractive title. C. T. 



Jumhols (2°'^ S. ii. 262.) —It is perfectly easy to 

 make jumbols from the receipt here given : — 

 They are an almond paste, a good deal like that 

 put on the top of bride-cake ; but rolled into 

 strings, knotted, baked, and iced. I intend to 

 make some ; and if they turn out well, a sample 

 shall be sent to Mr. Bruce. A Lady. 



Boiling Mineral Waters at Buda and elsewhere 

 (2"" S. ii. 218. 338.) — It is just possible that 

 Baiae, near Naples, is the place meant, and not 



Buda. Pliny the Elder says (b. xxxi. c. 2.) that 

 the Posidlan springs at Baiae " are so hot as to 

 boil articles of food even." He also speaks, in 

 the same chapter, of hot and cold springs "se- 

 parated by only the very smallest distance," and 

 gives the Pyrenees as their locality. The springs 

 of Aigues-Chaudes, in the Basses-Pyrenees, vary 

 considerably in temperature, some of them being 

 sufficiently hot to admit of cooking food. Others 

 of a similar nature, in that locality, are known as 

 the springs of Cambo, Bagneres, Bareges, and 

 Cauterets. Henry T. Riley. 



" Kalends " or " Calends " at Bromyard (2"^ S. 

 ii. 110.) — A part, of the close or " churchyard " 

 of Rouen Cathedral is called the Calende. The 

 entrance to the south transept is known, for dis- 

 tinction's sake, as " le portail de la Calende." Let 

 me remind Mr. Pattison that the French word 

 Calendes is defined by Boyer as " assemblee de 

 cures de campagne " — "a convocation of country 

 parsons;" or what the profanum vidgus of a 

 market town sometimes call " Rook Fair." It is 

 not, therefore, a matter of surprise that the ap- 

 proach to any considerable church, where period- 

 ical visitations of the clergy are held, should be 

 thus designated. I have not Ducange at hand, 

 but I have no doubt he would help us in this case. 

 Mark Antony Lower. 

 Lewes. 



Ouzel Galley, SfC. (2"-^ S. ii. 315.) — The repl^ 

 of P. B. respecting the derivation of Ringsend is 

 just what I wanted. May I ask him for similar 

 information respecting the Ouzel Galley, Pigeon 

 House, &c., not only for myself, but for other 

 readers of " N. & Q." who take an interest in the 

 antiquities of Dublin ? Abhua. 



Human Skin Tanned (2""^ S. ii. 250.) — Some 

 twenty years ago there was in the library of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, a piece of tanned 

 human skin, about the size of the hand. It was 

 of a very light brown colour, and somewhat re- 

 sembled Russia leather, in the green. It had 

 formed part of a murderer who was executed, of 

 the name of " Weems," I believe. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Eggs in Heraldry : Arms of Butler (2°'' S. ii. 

 353.) — Weever, as quoted by Morant, in History 

 of Essex, says these were the arms of Botiller, 

 sable, three covered cups, in a window in the 

 church of Shopland in Essex. No arms are now 

 there ; the windows have been too much church- 

 wardenised for that. Was this a branch of the 

 Butlers, Earls of Ormond, who had large posses- 

 sions in the neighbourhood, but different arms on 

 Rochford Church tower, said to have been built by 

 an Earl of Ormond, in Henry VII.'s reign ? It 

 is a very fine specimen of brickwork. 



A. Holt White. 



