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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 165. 



entitled " Richard Plantagenet, a Legendary Tale," 

 dedicated to David Garrick : printed at London, 

 in 4to., without date, and containing eighty-one 

 stanzas ; and, if my memory serves me, a novel 

 called The Last of the Plantagenets (founded on 

 the story or legend given in Peck's work) appeared 

 about twenty years ago. C. H. Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



Genealogy of Sir Francis Drake (Vol. vi., 

 p. 462.). — Sir Trayton Fuller Eliott Drake, 

 Bart., Nutwell Court, Exeter, is the descendant 

 and representative, and being a courteous and 

 worthy man, would no doubt give all particulars 

 required, of Sir Francis Drake's family, if applied 

 to. W. C. 



Harlow. 



Berkeley's Sublime System (Vol. vl., p. 460.). — 

 Bishop Berkeley was doubtless the Berkeley in- 

 tended. He had some strange theories, which 

 made Hume claim him as a teacher of scepticism ; 

 and the " sublime system " spoken of as his in 

 the note to Coleridge, is very probably that in 

 The Minute Philosopher, dial. iv. sect. 18., where, 

 from arguments commencing in sect. 7., and 

 drawn from his theory of vision, he gives it as his 

 opinion that God may truly be said to " speak, 

 himself, every day and in every place to the eyes 

 of all men." 



" Since you cannot deny," says his Euphranor, " that 

 the great mover and author of nature constantly ex- 

 plaineth himself to the eyes of men, by the sensible in- 

 tervention of arbitrary signs, which have no similitude 

 or connexion with the things signified, so as, by com- 

 pounding and disposing them, to suggest and exhibit 

 an endless variety of objects, differing in nature, time, 

 and place, thereby informing and directing men how 

 to act with respect to things distant and future, as well 

 as near and present, you have as much reason to think 

 the Universal Agent, or God, speaks to your eyes, as 

 you can have for thinking any particular person speaks 

 to your ears." 



It does not distinctly appear, from the note 

 transcribed by L. G., whether it means that 

 Berkeley or its author believed " the doctrine of 

 the final happiness of all men." But in Dial. vi. 

 sect. 13., he puts the objection to " Hell and 

 eternal punishment " into the mouth of his " mi- 

 nute philosopher, or free thinker," to be removed 

 by the sound reasoner. Henry Walter. 



Hasilbury Bryan. 



Highlands and Lowlands (Vol. vi., p. 340.). — 

 Mr. C. Mansfield Ingleby has fallen into a 

 slight mistake, in stating that all south of a line 

 drawn from Forfar to Inverary is Lowlands. 

 This is not quite correct, as it includes in the 

 Lowlands the districts of Cowal, Cantire, together 

 with the islands of Bute and Arran, which are all 



Highland. The following Is nearly the true divi- 

 sion : — Beginning at Thurso, it cuts across Caith- 

 ness to Wick ; thence it goes within a mile or two 

 of the seashore to Donnoch. Crossing the Mur- 

 ray Firth to Nairn, through which town it passes, 

 it goes nearly straight to the parish of Cabrach ; 

 from thence to Aboyne on Deeside ; thenee 

 through Dunkeld, Crieff, Callander, Aberfoyle, 

 Balloch, and Helensburgh. All to the west and 

 north of this line is Highland : all to the south 

 and east, Lowland. Padruig Donn. 



The Erse spoken in America (Vol. vi., p. 507.). 

 — Your correspondent Uneda states that the 

 Erse was a spoken language In America in 1766. 

 I may also mention that Sir Francis Head, in his 

 work on Canada, states that a number of the Glen 

 Garry MacDonnells went out to Canada in the 

 latter end of last century, and have retained their 

 language and religion (the Roman Catholic) ever 

 since. Padeuig Dokn. 



Biting the Thumb (Vol. vi., p. 281.). — Your 

 correspondent T. B. J. will find a notice on " Biting 

 the Thumb " in p. 284. of the Notes to the Lay of 

 the Last Minstrel, published by Bogue. 



C. Benson. 



Birmingham. 



Sermons against Inoculation (Vol. vi., p. 510.). — 

 I possess a sermon on this subject : 



" A Sermon against the Dangerous and Sinful Prac- 

 tice of Inoculation, preach'd at St. Andrew's, Hol- 

 born, on Sunday, July the 8th, 1722. By Edmund, 

 Massey, M. A., Lecturer of St. Alban, Wood Street. 

 The third edition. London : printed for William 

 Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill. 1722. Price 

 Sixpence." 



The text is Job ii. 7. : 



" So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, 

 and smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot 

 unto his crown." 



The preacher says : 



" Remembering then our text, I shall not scruple to 

 call that a diabolical operation, which usurps an autho- 

 rity founded neither in the laws of nature or religion, 

 which tends, in this case, to anticipate and banish Pro- 

 vidence out of the world, and promotes the increase of 

 vice and immorality." 



H. J. 



Sheffield. 



Vegetable Ivory (Vol. vi., p. 464.). — "Re- 

 searches on Vegetable Ivory," by M. Charles Mor- 

 ren (Bulletin de VAcademie Royale des Sciences de 

 Bruxelles, vol. ix. part ii. p. 362.) : 



" The vegetable ivory is the dense albumen of a nut 

 from which numerous elegant articles may be turned ; 

 an application of it first made in England. This nut 

 has been known a long time, and comes from a tree 



