Sept. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



221 



again adverts to the subject, but does not afford 

 any elucidation to the mystery. 



After all that has been said, I was certainly 

 somewhat surprised to find that Barbier, in his 

 Diet, des Ouvrages Anonymes, torn. i. p. 362., states 

 that this work is "par le Saint Hyacinth;" and 

 in the account of him in the Diet. Universel His- 

 torique, Sfe., we are told that he wrote " plusieurs 

 romans tres-mediocres ; celui du Prinee Titi est 

 le seul qu'on lise, on y trouve de I'interet et de 

 I'esprit." 



Probably some of your numerous readers may 

 be able to furnish some further information as to 

 the authorship, and supply a key to what Walpole 

 calls Memoirs of the Prince's own times, but 

 which I confess are too obscure for me. F. R. A. 



Oak House. 



BATHS AND THEIR CONSTITUENT PARTS. 



With a view of making a tour of the English 

 and Continental Baths, 1 have been reading the 

 works of Dr. Granville and others, but am struck 

 with a palpable defect or omission in all of them. 



To many it is not convenient, for want of money 

 or time, to go to a distance and spend sums in 

 travelling to baths. Might it not be of immense 

 use, therefore, to find for each bathing station of 

 value and repute, a prescription for preparing ar- 

 tificial baths at home? Nothing can be more 

 simple ; and though artijieial baths may not 

 always be so efficacious as natural springs, they 

 may often be better than ordinary water. 



But I have searched in vain the books in the 

 College and Advocates' Library here, for specific 

 directions to prepare Imitations of celebrated baths. 

 Why should we not have flarrogate, or Clifton, 

 or Wiesbaden, or Carlsbad, and others, if a few 

 medical receipts could give them ? 



A friend here gave me a receipt for Harrogate 

 baths, most agreeable and salutary, viz. : 



For a slipper bath full of hot water, mix with it 

 two ounces of sulphuret of potass, and you have a 

 tolerable Harrogate bath : or, for a hip bath of the 

 same, mix half an ounce of the sulphuret. 



I see a work advertised by Mr. Parker, Sutro on 

 German Baths; a table of the ingredients ne- 

 cessaiy for artificial baths of different regions 

 would be appropriate for such a work, and might 

 be inserted in an appendix, or in any treatise on 

 domestic medicine. I shall be glad if any of your 

 readers can refer me to any treatise supplying the 

 Avant now pointed out by A Frail Patient. 



Edinburgh, Aug. 24, 1852. 



RUMOURED DISCOVERT IN COIX. 



Mr. Stark, In his recently published History of 

 the Bishopric of Lineoln, states (note G, p. 504.), 

 on the authority of a " local journal," that in the 



Isle of Coll, near lona, there exist the remains of a 

 monastic building, of which — 



" Part of the ruins have been recently removed by 

 some of the natives in order to procure materials for 

 repairing their cabins. On pulling down one of the 

 walls of considerable thickness, a vaulted apartment of 

 fair dimensions was laid open, partly consisting of 

 masonry and partly formed by an excavation from the 

 mountain. Around this cell or room appear a variety 

 of shelves or ledges . . . bearing upon them ir»i 

 considerable numbers what according to modern phrase- 

 ology would be termed ' specimens of geology.' . . 

 The names of the specimens are indented or engraved, 

 upon the lead trays in Old Latin, which, in many in- 

 stances, still continue legible, though the majority qV 

 the names are quite unknown to modern times." 



There was also found in the vault a — 

 " Composition of hardened clay, being obviously x 

 model of the island, so far as relates to its geological 

 structure." 



I am very anxious to know if the vault, with its 

 trays, specimens, and model, has been examined by 

 any competent authority, and, if so, where I may 

 find a detailed account of the relics. If a discovery 

 of this kind was ever made, surely its only record 

 is not to be found in a " local journal." 



K. P. D. E. 



SHAKSPEABE QUERIES. 



I should feel very grateful for any replies to the 

 following questions : — 



1. The late Mr. Malone possessed a copy of 

 Shakspeare, full of MS. notes by the Rev. John 

 Whltaker, which are probably of some value. It 

 does not appear to be in that portion of Malone's 

 library now in the Bodleian, and I should be 

 pleased to ascertain what has become of it. 



2. In the last part of Mr. Jolley's sale at 

 Messrs. Puttick's was sold a small biographical 

 dictionary of English worthies, printed about 1692, 

 and including a notice of Shakspeare. I was not 

 in London at the time, and so missed the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing It. The notice is probably copied 

 from Langbaine, but as it may contain a few words 

 of worth, its present possessor would very much 

 oblige by furnishing a copy of it. 



J. O. Halxiweli.. 

 Brixton Hill. 



newspaper folk lore. 



" A REPTILE SWALLOWED BV A LITTLE GIRL. 



" Last summer a little girl, between eleven and 

 twelve years of age, daughter of a labouring man 

 named Watson, living at Blaxton, whilst engaged in 

 the harvest field, drank some water out of a ditch, 

 and, it appears, swallowed some kind of reptile in it. 

 Since then the poor child has periodically experienced 

 incredible pains in her chest, from the increasing bulk 

 and movements of the reptile, which at times ascends 



