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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. ]8. 1855. 



Elizabeth Carew, a. d. 1611. The fifth consists of 



figures, and a long inscription to the memory of Thomas 



Carew and Ann his wife, who died the 6th and 8th 



December, 1656. 

 Harford. Here is a brass of Thomas Williams, Esq., in 



armour, his head bare, and resting on a tilting helmet. 



The date is 1566. 

 Kentisbear. Here are two figures of John Whiting, in 



armour, and Anne his wife, dated 1629. 



W. R. Crabbb. 



East Wonford, Heavitree, near Exeter. 



Reference. — An established mode of reference 

 saves writing, printing, space, and trouble. Why, 

 in this work, should not its volumes and pages be 

 signified only by Roman and Arabic numerals ? 

 Why would not (xi. 34.) do as well as (Vol. xi., 

 p. 34.) ? It would do better, for as vol. and p. 

 would remain in other references, their absence 

 would instantly point out that " N. & Q." is re- 

 ferred to, and no other book. And every now 

 and then it would save a line. M. 



Summer Climate of the Crimea. — In reference 

 more particularly to the vicinity of Inker man, 

 Dr. E. D. Clarke says (vol. i. c. xviii. p. 440.), 

 eirca 1800 : 



" Professor Pallas was among the number of those who 

 became a victim to the consequences of their own too 

 favourable representations. Having published his Ta- 

 bleau de la Tauride, printed at Petersburg in 1796, in 

 which he describes the Crimea as a terrestrial paradise 

 (or, to use his own words in the dedication to Zoubof, as 

 'Cette belle Tauride — cette province si hereusement dis- 

 posee pour toutes les cultures qui manquent encore h, 

 I'empire de Eussie '), the Empress sent him to reside 

 there, upon an estate she gave him ; where we found 

 him, as he himself confessed, in a pestilential air, the 

 dupe of sacrifices he had made to gratify his sovereign. 



" Fevers are so general during summer throughout the 

 peninsula, that it is hardly possible to avoid them. If 

 you drink water after eating fruit, a fever follows ; if you 

 eat milk, eggs, or butter, a fever : if, during the scorch- 

 ing heat of the day, you indulge in the most trivial ne- 

 glect of clothing, a fever; if you venture out to enjoy the 

 delightful breezes of the evening, a fever; in short, such 

 is the dangerous nature of the climate to strangers, that 

 Russia must consider the country a cemetery for the 

 troops sent to maintain its possession. This is not the 

 case with regard to its native inhabitants, the Tartars ; 

 the precautions they use, added to long experience, ensure 

 their safety. Upon the slightest change of weather they 

 are seen wrapped up in sheepskins, and covered by thick 

 felts, while their heads are swathed in numerous ban- 

 dages of linen, or guarded by warm stuffed caps, fenced 

 with wool." — Vol. i. c. xxii. p. 571. 



" The tertian fever caught among the caverns of In- 

 kerman," where he was temporarily separated for the 

 Bishop Heber of a future day, " had rendered me so 

 weak after leaving this beautiful spot, that it was with 

 the greatest difficulty I could sit upon my horse. One of 

 its violent paroxysms coming on afterwards at Yoursuf, 

 I remained for some time extended upon the bare earth, 



No. 303.] 



in the principal street of the village. Its peaceful and 

 hospitable inhabitants regarded me as a victim of the 

 plague, and of course were prevented from offering the 

 succour they would otherwise gladly have bestowed." — 

 Vol. i. c. xxi. p. 541. 



He adds : 



" The pale Peruvian bark has very little effect in re- 

 moving the complaint, but the red bark soon cures it." — 

 Vol. i. p. 502 n. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



Simon Wadloe. — In D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, 

 or Pills to Purge Melancholy., vol. iii. p. 153., edit. 

 1719, is a song entitled "Old Simon the King." 

 It is conjectured that the subject of it was Simon 

 Wadloe, " the King of Skinkers," who kept the 

 Devil Tavern at the time when Ben Jonson and 

 the Apollo Club met there. As to the song, there 

 is nothing in it characteristic of the man ; but it 

 attributes to him the following two strings of 

 aphorisms, each of them forming that kind of 

 argument called by logicians a sorites : 



" Drink will make a man drunk. 



And drunk will make a man dry ; 

 Dry will make a man sick. 

 And sick will make a man die, 

 Says old Simon the King. 



" Drinking will make a man quaff. 

 Quaffing will make a man sing ; 

 Singing will make a man laugh. 

 And laughing long life doth bring, 

 Says old Simon the King." 



J. Yeowell. 

 13. Myddelton Place. 



Astounding Geographical Facts. — In a "new 

 edition, revised," of a Compendium of Geography 

 for the Use of National Schools in Ireland, I find 

 at p. 101.: 



1. That North Shields is also'called Tynemouth. 



2. That Sunderland is in Northumherland. 



3. That Leeds is between the Wharfe and the 

 Colder. 



I need hardly take the trouble to tell the readers 

 of "K & Q.," that North Shields is a mileand 

 a half from Tynemouth, that Sunderland is in 

 Durham, and that Leeds is on the Aire, were it 

 not for the sake of protesting against such gross 

 inaccuracies on one page of a new and revised 

 edition of one of a series of educational books, 

 whose yearly circulation is said to be twenty 

 thousand copies. Such a circulation should insure 

 perfect accuracy. R. W. D., J.P. 



Seaton Carew, co. Durham. 



Historical Parallels. — Stiles, representative of 

 the United States at the Austrian court, in his 

 Austria in 1848-9, vol. i. p. 248., remarking on 

 the defeat of the late King of Sardinia, says : 



" What a striking instance of the uncertainty of all 

 human affairs do not the events of these few days present 

 One week before, and the proud Piedmontese army, num- 



