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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 175. 



archbishopric of Mentz, who lived to see the sixth 

 generation, that she might thus address her daughter : 



' (1 ) Mater (2) natae die (3) nata filia (4) natam 

 Ut moneat (5) natae plangere (6) filiolam.' 



That is, « The mother says to her daughter: Daughter, 

 bid thy daughter, to tell her daughter, that her 

 daughter's daughter is crying.' " 



Anon. 

 ^' Warrington. 



I have in my possession a scrap-book, compiled 

 by one Edward King in the year 1743, which 

 consists of extracts from newspapers of that date ; 

 and while perusing your last Number, meeting with 

 W. "W.'s (Malta) Query, I immediately recollected 

 having noticed the quotation some short time ago. 

 Turning to the volume I find the following extract : 

 " Sarum, April 30. — We hear from Limington in 

 Hants that one Mrs. Mitchel was lately brought to bed 

 there of a daughter, whose great-great-grandmother is 

 still living, and has already seen her fifth generation, 

 and all daugliters. So that she may say the same that 

 the distich doth, made on one of the Dalburg's family 

 of Basil : 



12 3 4 



' Mater ait natae die natae filia natam 

 5 6 



Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.' 



12 3 



* Rise up, daughter, and go to thy daughter, 



4 5 6 



For her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.' 



She is about 92 years of age, is in perfect health, has 

 all her senses clear, and hopes to see five generations 

 more." 



Ttb. 

 Norwood, Surrey. 



Gospel Place (Vol. vil., p. 133.).— In my parish 

 there are two such places, both on the border of 

 the parish : one is called " The Gospel Oak," the 

 other " The Gospel Bush." The traditional ex- 

 planation of these names is this : — that at no very 

 ancient date, when the custom of perambulating 

 the parish was annually observed, portions of the 

 Gospel were read at these and other places, — 

 stations, as they were anciently called. 



John Jebb. 



Peterstow Rectory, Ross. 



Passage in Thomson (Vol. vii., p. 87.). — Steam- 

 ing, as your intelligent correspondent C. says, is 

 clearly the true reading. The word is so printed 

 in the 4to. edition of the Seasons, 1730 (was not 

 this the first collected edition of that poem ?), and 

 in every other to which I have referred. It does 

 not, however, occur in the 4to. copy in the twenty- 

 eighth, but in the thirty-first line. The four lines, 

 fifteenth to eighteenth, originally given in the 

 "'Hymn," but afterwards wisely omitted by the 



poet, follow the words " In Autumn uncon- 

 fined : " — 



" Thrown from thy lap 

 Profuse o'er Nature falls the lucid shower 

 Of beamy fruits, and in a radiant stream 

 Into the stores of sterile winter pours." 



The steaming property of the earth is well de- 

 scribed by Dr. Carpenter, in his Vegetable Phy- 

 siology, p. 168. : 



" If a glass vessel be placed with its mouth down- 

 wards, on the surface of a meadow or grass plot, during 

 a sunny afternoon in summer, it will speedily be ren- 

 dered dim in the interior by the watery vapour which 

 will rise into it ; and this will soon accumulate to such 

 a degree as to run down in drops. Any person walk- 

 ing in a meadow on which the sun is shining power- 

 fully, where the grass has not long previously been 

 refreshed by rain, may observe a tremulous motion in 

 distant objects, occasioned by the rising of the watery 

 vapour ; exactly resembling that which takes place 

 along the sea-shore, when the sun shines strongly on 

 the pebbles that have been left in a moistened state 

 by the retiring tide." — Dr. Carpenter's Vegetable Phy- 

 siology, p. 168. sect. 253. 



" Tlie atmosphere is made up of several steams, or 

 minute particles of several sorts rising from the earth 

 and the waters." — Locke's Elements of Natural Phi- 

 losophy. 



J. H. M. 



*'^ Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts " 

 (Vol. vii., p. 165.). — The hexameter line, os x 

 erepov, &c., is one put by Homer into the mouth of 

 Achilles (Iliad, ix. 313.), when he is expressing 

 his indignant hatred of liars. Rt. 



WarmingtOD. 



Folger Family (Vol. vi., p. 583. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 51.). — Will it assist the inquiry to say that 

 there was a family of Folgers at Norwich ? The 

 only son was a curate at Leiston, in Suffolk, in 

 1832. B. B. Woodward. 



notes on books, etc. 



The remarkable collection of Northern Irish Anti- 

 quities and Historical Relics, exhibited at Belfast on 

 the occasion of the British Association meeting in that 

 city, has led to the publication of The Ulster Journal 

 of Archaology, which is to be conducted by gentlemen 

 of the province, and principally devoted to the elu- 

 cidation of the antiquities and ancient history of Ulster. 

 Ulster, it will be remembered, is historically remarkable 

 as being the last part of Ireland which held out against 

 the English sway, and which therefore retained its an- 

 cient customs until a comparatively recent period. 

 Ulster was also the battle-field of the ancient native 

 Irish chieftains and the Scandinavian Vikings. The 

 antiquaries of Ulster have therefore done wisely, while 

 the tangled web of Northern Irish History can yet be 



