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their hearers. The fact as narrated by Turner is, 

 that Samuel Wallace, wliile alone in his house 

 after sermon, very ill of consumption, was reading 

 of the visit of the angels to Abraham : a tap 

 at his door introduced an aged man. He asked 

 for a cup of small-beer for an old pilgrim, which 

 having drank, he prescribed for the sick man, 

 exhorted him to fear God and serve him, and then 

 departed. Wallace followed the prescription, and 

 got well. The ministers upon this called the old 

 pilgrim an angel, and he certainly was a mes- 

 senger of mercy to the sick man ; but surely they 

 could not believe that one of the host of heaven 

 came down to deceive the sick man under the 

 pretence of his being an old pilgrim in want of a 

 cup of small-beer ! 



I shall feel obliged if Mr. Davibs will inform 

 me, by a note, whether his copy of Turner has 

 chapter xcii. Mine has not; but judging from 

 the Table of Contents, it appears to be perfect. 



George Offor. 



Hackney. 



StoTie Shot (2'"i S. iv.480.) — The calibre of the 

 Turkish ordnance employed in the siege of Con- 

 stantinople (a. d. 1453) must have been some- 

 thing prodigious, one of the cannon carrying 

 stone shot of six hundred pounds' weight. A 

 Turkish gun, which commanded the entrance of 

 the Dardanelles, is said, with 330 pounds of pow- 

 der, to have discharged a stone shot of eleven hun- 

 dred pounds' weight, which, at the end of 600 

 yards, shivered into several fragments ; and after 

 leaving a path of foam from shore to shore, where 

 it had traversed the Strait, rose again, and re- 

 bounded from the opposite hill ! Can any of your 

 readers corroborate this statement ? I have 

 gleaned the fact from some historical note, and 

 can only vouch for the accuracy of its repetition. 

 Though I believe the greatest range of the Strait 

 does not exceed four miles across, its minimum 

 breadth is 07ie mile ; the mean distance, therefore, 

 would show a fine ploughing-raatch between a 

 couple of stone shot at no mean rate of velocity! 



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