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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 255. 



Arnold Warrens used the orthography of Waringe, 

 Watson hinibelf is in error, as shown by the col- 

 lections above mentioned, and Records at the 

 Rolls of 25, 31, 38 Eliz. I find also, in the vicinity 

 of the Lancashire manor of Woodplumpton 

 (which the Warrens inherited with Poynton from 

 the Stokeports) many substantial families bearing 

 the name of Wareing, or Waringe, in the time of 

 Henry VIII. and afterwards ; and believe them 

 to be, in some way or other, descendants from the 

 owners of Poynton and Woodplumpton. But, on 

 referring to Burke's Landed Gentry (vol. ii. 

 p. 1152.), I find mention of an alleged line of 

 Lancashire Warings, of whom elsewhere I find no 

 trace. It is there averred, that the Warings of 

 Waringstown are a branch of the ancient family 

 of Waring of Lancashire, whose patriarch, Miles 

 de Guarin, came to England with the Conqueror. 

 A passage follows which clearly turns on some 

 casual error ; but, with respect to the above state- 

 ment, I should be obliged by any elucidation, as 

 such compatriots have hitherto escaped my re- 

 searches. Lancastriensis. 



Distances at which Sounds have been heard 

 (Vol. ix., p. 561.). — An acoustic phenomenon 

 similar to that recorded by the Rev. H. S. Salvin, 

 is alluded to by Southey in his Omniana : 



" It is said that the firing at the sieges of Rosas and 

 Gerona, in the Succession War, was heard distinctly at 

 Rieux in Languedoc, a town built where the little river 

 Rise falls into the Garonne, forty-five French leagues 

 from the nearest of those fortresses, in a straight line, and 

 with the Pyrenees between. ' But (says the editor of the 

 Journal de Hambourg), though these mountains might be 

 considered as an obstacle, the curious of that country 

 conjecture that the sound of the cannon acquired a new 

 force when it was confined between the openings of the 

 mountains ; and that the valleys through which the Rise 

 runs were better adapted than the others to preserve this 

 sound, which was not heard either at Foix or at Pamiers ; 

 although those towns are less distant from Catalonia, and 

 more towards the openings of the Pyrenees.' " — Omniana, 

 vol. ii. p. 236, 



Illustrations of the propagation of sounds will, 

 of course, be met with in all treatises on the phy- 

 sical sciences. I may, however, record the follow- 

 ing remarkable instance, which I transcribe from 

 a MS. note by some former possessor of my copy 

 of that interesting work, A Gazetteer of the most 

 rema7-kable Places in the World, Sj-c, by Thomas 

 Bourn, 8vo. : London, 1822 : 



-"One of the most awful volcanic eruptions recorded in 

 history, took place in the mountain of Tomborow on this 

 island (Sumbawa), in the year 1815. It began on April 5, 

 and reached its acme on the 12th, and did not entirely 

 cease till July. The sound of its explosion was heard at 

 Sumatra, a distance of 900 miles; and at Temate in 

 another direction, more than 700 miles off. Of 12,000 

 persons, living in the island previous to the eruption, 

 only twentj'-five survived the catastrophe. The explo- 

 sion was accompanied by hurricanes, which whirled into 

 the air men, horses, and other animals; uprooting the 

 largest trees. The ashes emitted from the crater were 



carried 300 miles, in such quantities as to darken the air. 

 The area over which these noises, and other indirect 

 effects of this convulsion, were perceivable, was 1000 

 English miles in circumference." 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



The report of guns fired at Portsmouth is fre- 

 quently heard in this neighbourhood. The dis- 

 tance, as the crow flies, is about forty-five miles. 



John P. Stilwell. 



Dorking. 



Bishop of Oxford on Nationality and Patriotism 

 (Vol. X., p. 11.). — Having had the pleasure of 

 hearing the whole of the " Address," of which the 

 following is a small portion, at the meeting of the 

 Archaeological Institute at Winchester in 1845, I 

 now copy out this extract from the annual volume 

 of the Proceedings of the Institute, and trust you 

 will aid in circulating far and wide such true, 

 ever seasonable, and most eloquent sentiments. 



" This linking of the present to the past is full of great 

 and important practical results. Upon them in a great 

 measure depends that strong bond of loyal patriotism 

 which makes a nation differ from a tribe, and hence it is 

 that in great and noble nations this claim of the present 

 or the past has ever been most jealously advanced. This 

 was the secret of the passionate affection for the songs of 

 Homer which possessed the soul of Ancient Greece ; this 

 is why so many a German heart has turned with such a 

 loving eagerness to the ancient Niebelungen Lied ; this 

 it is which makes the ancient title, and the long trans- 

 mitted motto, so precious in our eyes. This send.s at his 

 earliest visit to the old country, the fierce republican 

 citizen of young America to the Heralds' College, to dis- 

 cover amongst its records some traces of his earlier blood. 

 Every man in this onr land feels that he is bom a Briton, 

 that all the early deeds of our fathers' greatness are his 

 birth inheritance ; even though he knows not all the se- 

 parate parts of the story of the olden time, its spell is on 

 him, its spirit stirs within him ; he sees the halo and the 

 glory, though he cannot mark the burning outline of the 

 full-orbed sun. With him the past is present as an in- 

 stinct, because it abides with others as a history. And 

 this sense of high national descent is of the utmost prac- 

 tical importance. It excites all to venture upon noble 

 deeds, it will not endure the entrance of poltroonery or 

 baseness. . . . The record of the past is the bond of 

 the present — one language, one faith, one history, one 

 ancient birth-place, one common, unsearched, mysterious 

 original — these are the strong sinews which hold toge- 

 ther in a living unity the many separate articulations 

 jointed to each other to form a people and a nation. And 

 in such an age as this, any pursuit which tends to 

 strengthen these ties, cannot surely be without its prac- 

 tical importance. But there is more than a security for 

 love of country in this living on of the past into the 

 present ; for without an accurate knowledge of the past, 

 all attempts to improve and raise the present must be, to 

 a great degree, shallow and empirical," &c. — Address of 

 the Dean of Westminster (now Bishop of Oxford) at the 

 General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, at Winchester, September, 1845. 



J. Macray. 

 Oxford. 



Burning a Tooth with Salt (Vol. ix., p. 345.). 

 — About forty years ago it was a very common 



