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misplaced geographical details are wonderful, and 

 worthy of the Pre-Christian, if not the Pre- 

 Adamite era. Lough Derg, for instance, occupies 

 what is now the co. of Tyrone ; and its river, in- 

 stead of floiving South towards Limerick, prefers 

 the eastern and shorter route to Downpatrick 1 



Are any of your correspondents acquainted 

 with this map ? Y. S. M. 



John Frere, or Fryar, took the degree of M.D. 

 at Cambridge, 1555, subscribed the lloman Ca- 

 tholic articles the same yeai', and took a part in 

 the Physic act kept before Queen Elizabeth at 

 Cambridge, August, 1564. He appears to have 

 been the son of a physician of the same name who 

 died 1563,. and he is noticed in Tanner's Bibl. 

 Brit. We shall be glad to be informed where he 

 practised, and when and where he died. 



C. H. & Thompson Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



Rev. Edward William Barnard, of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, n.A. 1813, M.A. 1817, died at 

 Dee Bank, Chester, January 10, 1828. In the 

 notice of his death in the GentlemarC s Magazine, 

 xcviii. Part i. p. 187., he is described as of 

 Brantinghamthorp, Yorkshire. In a Miscellany, 

 without date, we observe a notice of Fiftij Select 

 Poems of Marc Antonio Flaminio, Imitated by the 

 late Rev. E. W. Barnard, M.A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge. Can any of your readers furnish 

 the date, size, and place of publication of this 

 work, or give any other particulars respecting 

 Mr. Barnard ? C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



[This work was edited by the Ven. Archdeacon Wrang- 

 ham, M.A., and printed b}' J. Fletcher, Chester, 8vo. 1829. 

 Following the title-page is a lithograph inscription on 

 Mr. Barnard's tomb. As only fifty copies were printed 

 for sale, we have extracted a few passages from the Me- 

 moir prefixed to the Poems. " Mr. Barnard at the time 

 of his death, Jan. 10, 1828, had not quite completed his 

 thirty-seventh year. Ilis only acknowledged publications 

 are Trifles, imitative of the Chaster Style of Melenger (Car- 

 penters, 1818, 8vo.), and The Protestant Beadsman (Riv- 

 ii.,^tcns, 1822, 8vo.). He had projected, however, a 

 History of the English Church, not long before Mr. 

 Scutliey's work on that subject appeared, and had col- 

 lected many valuable materials for the purpose. He had 

 also, with equal judgment and industry, made numerous 

 extracts, memoranda, and references for a far more de- 

 tailed Memoir of Flaminio, from a wide range of contem- 

 porary and succeeding authors ; and, if it had pleased 

 Providence to spare his virtuous and valuable life, he 

 would assuredly have attained high literary distinction."] 



Donald Campbell. — Where can anything be 

 learnt respecting Donald Campbell of Barbreck, 

 Esq., who formerly commanded a regiment of 

 cavalry in the service of his Highness the Nabob 

 of the Carnatic, the author of A Journey Overland 

 to India, partly by a Route never gone before by any 



European, in a series of letters to his son, com- 

 prehending his shipwreck and Imprisonment with 

 Hyder Ali, and his subsequent negotiations and 

 transactions in the East ? 



The copy before me is of the American edition 

 printed in 1797, and the work is highly Interesting, 

 containing particulars such as no father, probably, 

 ever before communicated to a son. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[There is extant, but probably only privately printed, 

 An Account of the Campbells of Barbreck from their first 

 Ancestor to the present Time, 1844,; by^ Frederick William 

 Campbell, Esq., son of the Indian traveller^ This account 

 traces the origin of the family to the fourteenth century, 

 and to the house of Argyle. A tit-bit of folk lore may 

 here be mentioned in connection with this family. A 

 curious relic, consisting of a tablet of ivory, was long 

 preserved by the Campbells of Barbreck. It was called 

 " Barbreck's bone," and was esteemed a sovereign cure 

 for madness. When borrowed, a deposit of lOOZ. was ex- 

 acted to insure its safe return. It is now in the possession 

 of the Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh, having been 

 presented to it in 1829, by Frederick William Campbell. 

 Donald Campbell's Journey Overland to India was first 

 published in London by J. Owen, Piccadilly, 4to., 1796. 

 Campbell also published A Letter to the Marquis of Lorn 

 on the present Times, 1798, 8vo.] 



" jEre around the huge oak." — The music of this 

 favourite song, in the opera of The Farmer, I 

 have always found attributed to Mr. Shield, and 

 printed with his name. (See, for instance, in Mr, 

 C. Knight's Musical Lib.) Nevertheless it would 

 appear that the air must really be the composition 

 of Michael Arne. I lately noted the following 

 passage In the Recnllectioiu of O'Keefe, who wrote 

 The Farmer, and is giving an account of its per- 

 formance : 



" Blanchard sung my 'Ploughboy,' and Darley my song 

 of 'Ere around the huge oak,' with great applause. I had 

 previously written the latter song, at Mr. Harris's re- 

 quest, for Reinhold, who did Fairfield, to sing in 77»e 

 Maid of the Mill, tliat character having no song. Mi- 

 chael Arne had then the conduct of the Covent Garden 

 musicals, and set this, with five more I wrote on the same 

 occasion. So I thought it now but justice to myself to 

 take it into my own piece." — Vol. ii. 



A. ROFFE. 



[We have before us a copy of the music of this song, 

 entitled "'Ere around the huge Oak, a favorite Song, 

 sung by Mr. Darley in The Farmer, a Comic Opera; 

 composed b}-^ Mr. Shield. London, printed by Longman 

 and Broderip, 26. Cheapside. Price 6e?." Mr. O'Keefe 

 might have taken this song (that is to say the poetry) 

 "into his own piece," and Mr. Shield might have set it to 

 music, as Mr. Michael Arne had before done; and as 

 there is no trace of any song by Arne, the probability is 

 that his music did not hit the public taste. But the title- 

 page to the original edition of The Farmer says the music 

 was selected and composed by Mr. Shield ; and this edi- 

 tion has not the song at all, — a fact which seems rather to 

 bear out the notion that Shield did not write the music] 



" Country Midwifes Opusculum." — A medical 

 friend of mine having lately purchased an exqui- 

 sitely-written manuscript, entitled The Country 



