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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 24. 1855. 



Logick, I find there subjoined " Two Speeches 

 delivered by him in the House of Commons of 

 Ireland in November, 1761, and February, 1762, 

 and other pieces." This work was published in 

 1808, the preface to which contains some very 

 interesting particulars as to his life and character. 



T. G. P. 

 Edinlmrgb. 



Memory Middhton (Vol. xii., p. 303.). — Mr. 

 Middleton was a civil servant of the East India 

 Comjjaiiy during the reign of Warren Hastings. 

 Called upon to give evidence on the trial of that 

 great man, it partook so strongly of the non mi 

 ricordo genus, and his " memory failed to serve 

 him" on so many important points, whereon it 

 appeared to bear more than its just share of 

 blame, that he acquired and retained the sobriquet 

 of " Memory Hamilton." (p. 



Glass malleable (Vol. xii., pp. 313. 346.). — Mr. 

 Apsley Pellatt, in his Memoir on the Origin of 

 Glass, p. 7., says : 



" In tlie reign of Tiberius, a Koman artist had, accord- 

 ing to Pliny, his house demolished, according to other 

 writers, was beheaded, for making glass malleable." 



A writer in the Penny Magazine, May 10, 1834 

 (p. 178.), says : 



" Tiberius is said to have rewarded an artist with death 

 for the invention of malleable glass." 



I have not been able to verify the statement 

 from Pliny, nor from the "Life of Tiberius" in 

 Tacitus or Suetonius. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Sinope, Quantity of (Vol. xii., p. 302.). — 



T)7 5 aWr) a.^iKvovVTa.1 els Su'mtt/i' koX i>pix.i(Ta.vro eis 

 Ap/xiji»i}i/ T7J9 2't I'M TTTjs. SiccoTreis fie ot(coO(ri ii.iv kv rfj 

 'Ila<l)\ayoviKJ}, MiAijo-t'oii/ Se ajroiKoC ela-iv." — Xenophon, Ana- 

 basis, lib. vi. cap. i. § 15. ; or, according to some editions, 

 lib. v. cap. ix. § 15. 



H. J. (2) 

 Sheffield. 



Sibyl (Yo]. xii., p. 110.). — I have often sought 

 for an oriental derivation of this word. I find 

 the root ^3J»>, s. b. I., from which comes sebel, 

 flowing hair ; sebil, a path; sibida, a flowing stream, 

 and an ear of corn. This latter word denotes the 

 sign of the Virgin in the Zodiac, and M. Rouge- 

 niont, in his Peuple Primitif, says that from this 

 word was derived the name of Sibylla. His rea- 

 soning upon the subject may be found in the work 

 referred to, vol. ii. p. 58. I am quite disposed to 

 think he has hit upon the true derivation of the 

 word, whatever the boundaries of the theory he 

 connects with it. If this be the source of the 

 word, it would be Sibxjl, and not Stjbil. B. H. C. 



Jordan (Vol. xii., p. 224.). — If Mr. Buckton 

 will refer to Judges, xviii., he will find a conclu- 

 No. 317.] 



sive refutation of his theory respecting the mean- 

 ing of the word Jordan, as signifying " the De- 

 clivity or Descent of Dan,''' inasmuch as that 

 chapter relates under what circumstances the 

 town Dan was first so called in remembrance of 

 the progenitor of the Israelite tribe of that name, 

 the place having originally been styled Laish or 

 Leshem, as in Joshua, xix. 47. According to the 

 chronology in the margin of our authorised version 

 of the Scriptures, the capture of Laish by the 

 Danites occurred forty-five years after the Israel- 

 ites are stated to have crossed the Jordan, which 

 river we find first mentioned by its present name, 

 Genesis, xiii. 10. 11., in connection with Abraham 

 and Lot, i. e. by the above chronology, some 

 five hundred years or more before any town of 

 Dan was known in the vicinity of the upper course 

 of the Jordan, " in the extreme north of Palestine." 

 Again, Genesis, xxxii. 10., we find Jacob saying, 

 "With my staff I passed over this Jordan," the 

 period, wherein we are told the patriarch thus 

 spoke of the river, being about three hundred and 

 thirty years previous to that assigned for changing 

 the name of the town Laish. Arthur Hussey. 



Inscriptions on Sun Dials (Vol. xi., p. 61.). — 

 Add the following to the list : Uppingham, High 



Street : 



" Non rego nisi regar." 



Barmston Church, near Burlington : 

 " Dies Deum docet, disce," 



J. Eastwood. 



Add the following, at Lesneven, Brittany : 

 " Me lumen, vos umbra regit." 

 The one quoted by Mr. C. M. Inglebt, 



" Pereunt et imputantur," 



is at All Souls, not New College, Oxford. 



Dro. Duce. 



Shefiield parish church : 



" Via vitse." 



H. J. (2) 



Sheffield. 



Coningsby Family (Vol. xii., pp. 222. 312.). — 

 Your correspondent omits to say that there is, or 

 was, a chapel to the Coningsby family, in North 

 Mimms Church, Herts. R. W. Hackwood. 



Milton and Napoleon (Vol. xii., p. 361.). — 

 Under this title ]\Ir. Davis extracts a note made 

 in Symmons's Life of Milton, stating that Na- 

 poleon acknowledged to have taken from a passage 

 in Paradise Lost the idea of concealing his artil- 

 lery amid his masses of infantry at the battle of 

 Austcrlitz. The note is signed " J. Brown," and 

 I have read it often when the book was in the 

 library of its writer. He was a captain in the 

 4th Regiment of Foot ; subsequently adjutant of 

 the Buckinghamshire Militia, and & factotum of 



