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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 100., Nov. 28. '57. 



in his interesting account of a recent scientific 

 expedition made by him to the Peak of Tene- 

 riflfe, has set at rest the qucestio vexata of the heat 

 of the moonlight. He says that his thermome- 

 trical instruments were sensibly affected by the 

 moon's rays, even at the lowest of two stations 

 occupied by him at different elevations. In tro- 

 pical climates meat which is exposed to the 

 moonlight rapidly becomes putrid ; and in the 

 West Indies, the negroes, who will lie sweltering 

 and uncovered beneath the full glare of a tropi- 

 cal sun, carefully muffle their heads and faces 

 when exposed to the moonbeams, which they be- 

 lieve will cause swelling and distortion of the fea- 

 tures, and sometimes even blindness. 



John Pavin Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Nomenclature (passim.) — I dare say your cor- 

 respondent Mr. Taylor would be amused and 

 gratified to see a little publication in which all the 

 surnames of the residents in Edinburgh are clas- 

 sified in subjects, serving as a public directory. I 

 unfortunately have not the book complete, only 

 from p. 9. to its termination, p. 66., the damage 

 having been caused by an elderly lady who was 

 lighting her pipe each morning with a leaf of it, 

 till arrested at the page first mentioned ; so much 

 ibr one of the evils of the practice of tobacco 

 smoking, which you have so largely illustrated. 

 I think, from internal evidence, it has been pub- 

 lished about twenty years, but I have no doubt 

 T. G. S., to whom it will be well known, will be 

 able to furnish a copy of the title-page, and all 

 about the history of the work. 



Each surname is placed on the left hand of the 

 page, and the Christian name and address opposite 

 to it — the former reading down the page in a 

 subject. To give a few specimens, space not ad- 

 mitting more : 



" Of Animals we have (p. 16.), Lyons, Griffins, Bullocks, 

 and Stotts, Colts, Cuddys, Galloways, and Palfreys, ivith 

 Long Mains, that make good Steeds, for they are Noble, 

 Walkers, and Trotters, and can Hunt and Race," &c. — 

 " Of Birds and Fowles (p. 18.) we have the Eagle, Peacock, 

 Saycock, Nightingale ; also Hawks, Swans, Plots, Rookes," 

 &c. — " We have Salmon, Turbet, Ling, Haddows, Floun- 

 ders, Whittings, Mennons," &c. — For Beveridge (p. 21.) 

 they have a Gill of Sherry with a Glass to the Brim, with- 

 out Lees of Perry and IJurton, Goodale, with a Pott of 

 Miux and Calverts Porter," &c. — " We have (p. 22.) 

 Dukes, Marquises," &c. — "Names of old Statesmen (p. 26.) 

 Mansfield, Melville, and Charles," &c. — Yet besides (p. 

 32.) we have Bad, Wild, Rough, Bookless, Savages, and 

 Pagans," &c. — " Greatheads, Lightbodys, and Small, 

 Bendy Shanks, but they always Waddel along" &c. — 

 "Names of Authors, Poets, ^c." (p. 39.) — "Of old Painters 

 we have still the nam£s Reynolds, Hogarth, Skirring, Na- 

 smyth, and Raeburn," &c., 



and so forth of other different classes, trades, and 

 professions in the metropolis, to the end of the 

 brochure. 



However unphilosophical some portions of the 



arrangement may be, it is extremely curious, as 

 showing in a concatenated form the source, so far, 

 from which many names are drawn of persons ex- 

 isting in society, with the variations and corrup- 

 tions in orthography incident to them, &c. Were 

 a few of our directories compiled on this plan, al- 

 though they might in some respects be less useful 

 to the mercantile community as books of reference, 

 they would in a measure supply what is often 

 wanted by the genealogist and antiquary, and thus 

 in a sense, like the piece of furniture in Gold- 

 smith's ale-house, 



" The chest contrived a double debt to pay, 

 A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.' 



G.N. 



Sunderlande (2"^ S. iv. 348. 418.)— I admit the 

 force of the examples adduced by Mr. Matthews. 

 But while the etymology of the word points to 

 one conclusion, its use as a proper name points to 

 another. I have been favoured with the following 

 remarks respecting Sunderland in Northumber- 

 land : 



" Sunderland is three miles from the Royal Castle of 

 Bamburgh, and seems to be a place separated into a town, 

 for some purpose, away from the borough town of Bam- 

 burgh. There was a wide tract of moor or common be- 

 tween the two places. It is of copyhold tenure, of the 

 manor of Bamburgh, and held on bondage rents bj' the 

 villeins or tenants of the King — most likely, in the first 

 instance, workmen required for the works at the Castle, 

 who were thus sundered from the military adherents that 

 were housed in and about the Castle." 



To this case the etymological idea of separation 

 for a privileged purpose is obviously inapplicable. 

 So is it in the relations between Flensborg in 

 Schleswig, at the head of the Fiord, and Sonder- 

 borg on the Isle of Alsen at the foot. Dr. Lingard 

 expresses an opinion that severance by water, or 

 similarly effective means, from privileged terri- 

 tory, is the leading idea, in all cases in which the 

 word Sunderland is used as a proper name. Which 

 is right, he or Bosworth ? A minute investigation 

 into the historic facts connected with each town, 

 so called, might solve this question. B. B. 



Likeness of Mary Queen of Scots (2""^ S. iv. 

 368.) — Although unable to answer Mr. Jacob's 

 query about the pleasing medallion of Mary, I 

 may inform him that his book, The Royal Exile, 

 or Poetical Epistles of Mary Queen of Scots, Sfc , 

 is the joint production of Mr. Sam. Roberts, of 

 Grange Park, Sheffield, and his daughter, and a 

 fine specimen of the printing of James Montgo- 

 mery. J. O. 



I feel obliged to R. W. Jacob for the history of 

 the medallion described by me, and of which I pos- 

 sess an electrotype plaster cast, done by the late 

 John Henning (the restorer of the Elgin Marbles), 

 and given to me by him as a copy of the identical 

 proof of Mary's aspiration to the English crown, 



