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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 173* 



The writer was probably not aware that Spenser 

 says, in his Faerie Queen, iii. 3. 30. : 



" And if he then with victorie can lin, 

 He shall his days with peace bring to his earthly In." 



And again, Faerie Queen, ii. 1. 59. : 



" Palmer, quoth he, death is an equall doome 

 To good and bad, the common In of rest" 



A Leicestershire poet has recorded, in the 

 churchyard of Melton Mowbray, a very different 

 conception of our '■'■earthly Inn." He says: 

 " This world's an Inn, and I her guest : 

 I've eat and drank and took my rest 

 With her awhile, and now I pay 

 Her lavish bill, and go my way." 



You may, perhaps, consider this hardly worthy 

 of a place in your paper ; but I act upon the 

 principle which you inculcate in your motto. 



Erica. 



CampbelVs '■^Pleasures of Hope." — It has often 

 occurred to me that in two lines of the most cele- 

 brated passage in this poem, — 



" O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow. 

 Her blood-red waters murmuring far below," 



the author has confounded Prague, the capital of 

 Bohemia, with Praga, the suburb of Warsaw. The 

 bridge over the Moldau, at the former place, is a 

 stone one of European celebrity ; and to it Camp- 

 bell must have referred when using terms not at 

 all applicable to that over the Vistula, which is of 

 much humbler form and material. 



In Campbell's " Ode to the Highland Society on 

 21st March," he describes the 42nd llegiment as 

 having been at Vimiera, which it assuredly was 

 not ; and no Highland regiment was in the battle 

 except the 7lst. I suspect he confounded the 

 " Black Watch " with the distinguished corps next 

 to it on the army list, — an error into which the 

 author of Charles G'Malley also must have fallen, 

 as he makes Highlanders form a part of the Light 

 Division, which consisted of the 43rd, 52nd, and 

 95th. J. S. Warden. 



Palindromical Lines. — In addition to the verses 

 given by your correspondent H. H.Breen (Vol.vi., 

 p. 449.), I send you the following, as perhaps the 

 most remarkable of its kind in existence. It is 

 mentioned by Jeremy Taylor as the inscription 

 somewhere on a font. Letter by letter it reads 

 the same, whether taken backwards or forwards : 

 "NINS^ON ANOMHMA MH MONAN O^IN." 

 " Wash my guilt, and not my face only." 



Agricola de Monte. 



^^Derrick" and ''Ship's Painter."— The following 

 Note may perhaps interest some of your readers : — 

 The ancient British word derrick, or some such 

 word, still exists in our marine. It is used in sea 

 phrase to define a crane for temporary purposes, 



and is not unusually represented by a single spar, 

 which is stepped near a hatchway, provided with 

 a tackle or purchase, in order to the removal of 

 goods from the hold of a vessel. The use of Derry, 

 both as a termination in the names of places, and 

 in the old ballad chorus of Down derry down, is 

 familiar to every one. 



Some other of our sea terms might receive apt 

 illustration in " N. & Q.;" and I should beg to' 

 suggest "unde derivatur" a boat's painter, — the 

 name of the rope which confines a ship's boat to 

 the vessel, when at sea. 



Turner gave a world-wide interest to the phrase 

 when he called, in his eccentric manner, one of his 

 finest marine pictures " Now for the painter." 



J. C. G. 



Tavistock Square. 



Lord Reay^s Country. — Formerly the parish of 

 Durness comprehended the whole of the district 

 known as " Lord Reay's country," or, as it is called 

 in Gaelic, " Duthaic Mhic Aoi," i. e. the land of 

 the Mackays, extending from the river of Borgie, 

 near Strathnaver, to the Kyle of Assynt, and com- 

 prehending a space of about 800 square miles! 

 Since 1734 it has been divided into three parishes, 

 viz. Eddrachillis, Durness, and Tongue, with the 

 parish of Farr: it was disjoined from the presbytery 

 of Caithness, and by an act of Assembly attached 

 to the presbytery of Tongue. Kirk wallen sis. 



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UNANSWERED QUERIES. 



I think it may be permitted to Querists, wha 

 may fail in obtaining answers, to recur to their 

 questions after the lapse of a reasonable time, in 

 order to awaken attention. I asked a question at 

 page 270., Vol. vi., in which I was, and still am, 

 much Interested. Perhaps Mr. Collier will do 

 me the favour to answer it, particularly as his an- 

 notated folio is remarkably rich in ''stage direc- 

 tions." 



Before taking the liberty of putting the question 

 so directly to Mr. Collier, I awaited an examin- 

 ation of his recently- published volume of selected 

 corrections, in which, however, the point upon 

 which I seek information is not alluded to. 



In glancing over that volume, I perceive that 

 Mr. Collier, in his notes at the end (p. 508.), 

 does "N. & Q." the honour to refer to It, by allud- 

 ing to an emendation "proposed by Mr. Cornish" 

 ("N.&Q.," Vol.vi., p. 312.). 



When that emendation appeared. I recognised 

 it at once as having been proposed by Warburton 

 and applauded by Dr. Johnson. I did not, how- 

 ever, then think it of sufficient importance to 

 trouble the editor of " N. & Q.," by correcting a 

 claim which, although apparent, might not perhaps 

 be intentional. 



