July 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



17 



ing, — having the property of ; belonging to. 

 (Extract from Bellott's unpublished Sanscrit De- 

 rivations of English.) 



The ci in tenacious, loquacious, tenacity, and 

 loquacity is from the Sanscrit ka. 



T. Bkllott, R.N. 



10. Upper Byrom St, Manchester. 



'^ Peter Wilkins" (VoLix., p. 543.).— Leigh Hunt 

 devotes one of the papers (No. 31.) of his Seer to 

 a notice of this quaint, imaginative work. It 

 seems to be a great favourite of his, and he says 

 that Southey has somewhere recorded his own 

 admiration of it. The authorship he then was in- 

 clined to ascribe to Abraham Tucker or Bishop 

 Berkeley, leaning, however, to the latter, and not 

 without reason, for there is much to remind us 

 of the author of Oaudentio di Lucca. In a later 

 work, however, replete with most delicious gossip, 

 and instinct with that keen sympathy with genius 

 which has led its author instinctively to track and 

 describe its homes, the same writer has given more 

 definite information on this subject, from what 

 source obtained we are not told. 



" There are three things to notice in Clifford's Inn," 

 says he, "its little bitof turf and trees; its quiet; and 

 its having been the residence of Robert Pultock, 

 author of the curious narrative of Peter Wilkins, with 

 its flying women. Who he was is not known ; pro- 

 bably a barrister without practice ; but he wrote an 

 amiable and interesting work." — The Town, vol. i. 

 p. 157. 



Peter Wilkins and his winged women may pro- 

 bably have suggested another curious 12mo. : 



" The Voyages and Discoveries of Crusoe Richard 

 Davis, the Son of a Clergyman in Cumberland, whose 

 life exhibits more remarkable incidents than the ex- 

 istence of any human being in the known world has 

 hitherto afforded ; among which are . . .his dis- 

 covery of a floating island ; where among various re- 

 searches he discovered and caught a Wild Feathered 

 Woman, with whom he lived and taught the English 

 language . . . and arrives at last safe with Mary in 

 England ; where he now lives a prodigy of the present 

 age." London, printed by S. Fisher, 1803, pp. 72. 



Wllliam Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



Kev. John Lewis (Vol. ix., p. 397.). — He was 

 curate of Tetbury (not Tilbury), and a member 

 of the clerical society meeting at Melksham, so 

 that he wrote from personal knowledge : it is the 

 printer's mistake. E. D. 



Eden Family (Vol.ix., p. 553.).— I am'greatly 

 obliged to E. H. A. for his reply to my Query 

 respecting the Rev. Robert Eden ; and I sub- 

 scribe this with my name and address at length, 

 in hopes that E, H. A. will communicate to°me 

 farther particulars, as he kindly offers, since I am 



anxious to obtain the full pedigree of the Eden, 

 family, from which I am lineally descended through 

 the parties he mentions in his reply. 



ROBBBT ES£N COLB. 

 University College, Oxford. 



Kutchakutchoo (Vol.ix., p. 304.).— This amusC' 

 ment was fashionable about sixty years ago ; and 

 those who remember the low dresses then worn 

 by ladies will join in reprobating its gross in- 

 decency. The following extracts are from a satire 

 called Ctitchacutchoo, or the jostling of the Inno- 

 cents, 2nd edit., Dublin, no date : query, if sold ? 



" Games and the mighty She's I sing. 

 Who tightly tie the plumping-string"', 

 And, stuff'd with stagnant blood, appear 

 Like geese at Michaelmas' cheer. 



Now huge Clonmel is usher'd in. 

 Give way, ye dames of bone and skin. 

 Aspiring pigmies, do ye dare 

 With her wide wonders to compare? 

 Or hope with vain attempt to match her 

 Mountain sublimity of stature ? 

 Rival those cheeks that hundreds cost her, 

 As broad and red as cheese of Glo'ster ? 

 Calves as ye are (nay, frogs I vow), 

 To strive with half so huge a cow. — 

 Now she with tone tremendous cries, 

 ' Catchacutchoo "f 



E. D. 



The children's play spoken of by Seleticus is well 

 known in this country, but is not supposed to have 

 any connexion with the Kutchin-kutcha Indians. 

 The children squat down (if the expression may 

 be allowed), the girls with their clothes tucked 

 between their knees ; and one chases the others in 

 a hopping kind of motion, the feet kept together, 

 crying, " Catch you, catch you ; catch you, catch 

 yoM." There is nothing Indian in this. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Elstob Family (Vol. ix., p. 553.). — Your Num- 

 ber of June 10th contains a Query as to the 

 Elstob family. I am not able to answer the 



* Plumpness being now the order of the day, these 

 ladies fasten a bobbin round the arm to stop the circu- 

 lation of the blood, and render it plump and ruddy. 



f Cutchacutchoo. The performers first bend them- 

 selves into a posture as near sitting as possible. This 

 done, and their petticoats tucked tightly about their 

 limbs, the joyous mortals jump about in a circle with 

 an agility almost incredible. 



^ The lowness of language does not require any 

 apology, "Truth is preferable to poetry;" and the 

 reader is assured that such language is used now, for 

 our innocents are become very diligent and hearty 

 swearers. 



