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tolerably late period. Malcolm, the contempo- 

 rary of William the Conqueror, called himself, or 

 was called amongst his friends and in his court, 

 by the Irish epithet of Canmore. C. (1.) 



American- Indian Christmas Legend. — Some 

 years since, before I made Notes, or " N. & Q." 

 was in existence, I hastily read an account of 

 a traveller who surprised an American-Indian 

 stealthily creeping by a spring late on Christmas 

 Eve, and when interrogated as to his object, 

 stated that he came to see the chief stag of a herd 

 of deer kneel to welcome the first hour of Christ- 

 mas Day. In what book does such a legend exist ? 



M. C. 



Cornish Hurling. — In the Memorials of Ray, 

 the following account is given of a Cornish game 

 which that great naturalist heard of when travel- 

 ling a-simpling, as they termed it, in 1658 : 



" We had an account of a hurling-play much used in 

 Cornwall. There are two kinds of hurling. The in-hurl- 

 ing and the out-hurling. In the first there are chosen 

 twenty or twenty-five of a side, and two goals are set up ; 

 then comes one with a small hard leather ball in his 

 hand, and tosses it up in the midst between both parties ; 

 he that catches it endeavours to run with it to the fur- 

 thermost goal ; if he be stopped by one of the opposite 

 side, he either saith I will stand and wrestle with him, 

 letting fall the ball hy him (which one of the opposite 

 side must not take up, but one of his -own), or else throws 

 the ball to one of his own side (if any of them can catch 

 it). He that is stopped may chuse whether he will 

 wrestle, or throw away the ball ; but it is more generous 

 to wrestle. He that stops must answer and wrestle it 

 out. When any one wrestles, one of his side takes up the 

 ball, and runs with it towards the goal till he be stopped, 

 and then, as before, he either wrestles or throws away the 

 ball, so that there are commonly many pairs Avrestling at 

 once. An out-hurling is played by one parish against 

 another, or eastern men against western, or Devonshire 

 men against Cornish. The manner they enter it is as 

 follows. Any one that can get leave of a justice, &c. goes 

 into a market town with a little wooden ball in his hand, 

 plated over with silver, and there proclaims the hurling, 

 and mentions the time and place. They play in the same 

 manner as in the other, only they make their churches 

 their goals. That party which can cast the ball into or 

 upon the church wins. In an out-hurling they have not 

 a set number on each side, but each have as many as they 

 can procure. An hurler, to help him in running, may 

 catch hold on a horseman's stirrup. No horsemen play." 



Can any of your Cornish or Devonshire corre- 

 spondents inform me whether these games, or any 

 like them, are still in use in the West, or whether 

 there are any living who remember them. 



R. W. B. 



Perkin Warheck. — Has any portrait come 

 down to our times of this remarkable pretender, 

 whose claims, however, in my opinion were be- 

 yond doubt founded upon truth ? C. (1.) 



Sermons on Canticles. — I have an old seven- 

 teenth century book of sermons on the Song of 

 Solomon, wanting a title-page. It has a preface 



recommendatory by T. Dod. The first discourse 

 is on Cant. v. 1. Is the name of its author known ? 



HuBEET Bower. 



Osney Abbey. — In Swaine's Memoirs of Osney 

 Abbey, near Oxford (1769), p. 34., occurs the fol- 

 lowing passage : — 



" It seems not a little surprising that during the time 

 this church (i. e. of Osney) remained in its state of splen- 

 dour and magnificence, so few draughts and prospects 

 should be taken of it. We have been told indeed by 

 some authors that several foreigners came over into 

 England for this purpose. But what is now become of 

 these valuable performances of theirs, which would have 

 been so much esteemed by many, as very curious pieces 

 of antiquity, we are not able to give any account." 



Are any of your readers so far acquainted with 

 continental libraries or galleries as to be able to 

 indicate the whereabouts of any such drawings ? 



FORESTARIUS. 



Apollo Belvedere. — What is the height of the 

 Apollo Belvedere ? H. B. 



Movable Wooden Types. — I read in the Lite' 

 rary Gazette for 1837, p. 1355., that '^ wooden types 

 are advertised in the American papers, of every 

 character and size, and at so reduced a price, 

 when compared with metallic letters, as to afford 

 no unreasonable expectation of their superseding 

 the latter. It would be a curious incident in the 

 history of the art of printing if this invention 

 should lead to the revival of block- printing, for 

 such standard works as are now stereotyped." 



Now, if this do not refer to block-printing, as, 

 from the last sentence, I must suppose it does, I 

 would like to know the tenour of the advertise- 

 ments mentioned in the above. Movable wooden 

 types I can hardly believe to be meant here, at 

 least not for usual printer's work, and, judging 

 from such specimens as I saw in Holland, these 

 could never be expected once to supersede metallic 

 ones. J. H. van Lennep. 



Mompadt House, near Haarlem. 



Great, Middle, and Small Miles. — In Camden's 

 Britannia (Gibson's ed., 1695), each map has in it 

 three scales of miles. Thus designated, I could 

 understand that one might mean geographical, and 

 the other statute miles ; but what can the third 

 mean ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Distance at which the Light from a Lighthouse 

 may be seen. ■ — Allow me to correct a statement 

 of your learned and acute correspondent L., in 

 his article on Macistus (2"'* S. iv. 370.), viz. that 

 " the light of a good lighthouse is, under favoura- 

 ble circumstances, visible at sea to the naked eye 

 not more than about fifteen miles." 



From the pier at Dover, the Calais light, dis- 

 tant 22i miles, is very plainly visible to the naked 

 eye on an ordinary night ; and I imagine would 



