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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Extinct Volcanos and Mountains of Gold in Scotland - 283 

 Tiiomas Blount. Autlior of " Fragmenta Antiquitatis," 



&c., by J. B. Wiiitborne - - - - 286 

 " Give liim a Uoll." — A Plea for the Horse, by C. 



Forbes 287 



Dream Testimony, by C. H. Cooper . - - 287 



Shakspeare Correspondence ... - 288 



Minor Notes : — Epitaph from Stalbridge — Curious 

 Extracts : Dean Nowell : Bottled Beer — A Collec- 

 tion of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the 

 Lord Bacon — Law and Usage — Manichaean Games 



— Bohn's Hoveden — Milton at Eyford House - 289 



jQuEniES : — 



Earlof Leicester's Portrait, 1585 - - . - 290 



Early Use of Tin - - . - - - 291 



JSt. Patrick — Maune and Man, by J. G. Gumming - 291 



Passage in Bingham, by Richard Bingham . . 291 



Minor Queries: — "Terra; filius " — Daughter pro. 

 nounced Dafter — Administration of the Holy Com- 

 munion — Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead — A 



Scrape — "Plus occidit Gula," &c Anecdote of 



Napoleon — Canonisation in the Greek Church — Bi. 

 nometrical Verses — Dictionary of English Phrases 



— Lines on Woman — Collections for Poor Slaves — 

 The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers — 

 "Like one who wakes," &c, ... - 292 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Glossarial Queries 



— Military Knights of Windsor — " Elijah's Mantle " 294 



Replies: — 



Milton and Malatesti, by S. W. Singer - - - 295 



Attainment of Majority ----- 296 



John Frewen ...... 296 



" Voiding Knife," " Voider," and " Alms-Basket," by 



W. Chaffers - . - - - - 297 



The Letter " h " in Humble - - • - 298 



School Libraries, by Mackenzie Walcott, M. A., &c. - 298 



Dr. John Taylor - . - - - - 299 



Portrait of Sir Anthony Wingfield, by John Wodder- 



spoon, &c. - - - . . - 299 



Barnacles . - - - - - -300 



Photographic Correspondence : — Precision in Pho- 

 tographic Processes — Tent for Collodion — Mr. 

 Sisson's Developing Solution — Mr. Stewart's Panto- 

 graph - - - - - - - 301 



Replies to Minor Queries : — George Browne of 

 Shefford — Wheale — Sir Arthur Aston — " A Mock- 

 ery," &c. — Norman of Winster — Arms of the See of 

 York — Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection 



— Pierrepont — Passage in Bacon — Monumental In- 

 scription in I'eterborough Catliedral — Lord North — 

 Land of Green Ginger — Sheer, and Shear Hulk — 

 Serpent with a Human Head — "When the maggot 

 bites"— Definition of a Proverb— Gilbert White 



of Selborne, &-c. - . - - . - 301 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 306 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - .306 



Notices to Correspondents . - - - 300 



Advertisements . . . . . .307 



Vol. VIII. — No. 204. 



EXTINCT VOLCANOS AND MOUNTAINS Or GOLD IN 

 SCOTLAND. 



It is by some supposed that tlie Hill of Notb, 

 in the parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, had at 

 one time been a volcano in full operation : others, 

 again, maintain that the scoria found on and in 

 the neighbourhood are portions of a vitrified fort, 

 which had at one time stood on its summit. I am 

 not aware that the matter has been investigated 

 since our advancement in the science of geology 

 has enabled us to have a more intimate know- 

 ledge of these things than formerly. The last 

 statistical account of Scotland has suffered severely 

 in its Aberdeenshire volume, in consequence of 

 the temporary deposition of the " seven Strath- 

 bogie clergymen." The accounts of their several 

 parishes were written by parties only newly come 

 to reside in them, and who appear to have taken 

 little interest in it ; and Rhynie is one of these- 

 Those who argue for its having been a volcano, 

 say that it is very possible that there may at one 

 time have been an electric or magnetic chain con- 

 necting it with subterranean fire in some other 

 quarter of the world ; and that by some convul- 

 sion of nature, the spinal cord of its existence had 

 been broken, and life became extinct. This hypo- 

 thesis has been acted on, in accounting for the 

 earthquakes which occur at Comrie in Perthshire. 

 The great storm which devastated the princely 

 estates of Earl Goodwin in Kent (circa anno 

 1098), and now so well known to mariners as the 

 Goodwin Sands, is also said to have laid waste the 

 parish of Forvie, in Aberdeenshire. On the oc- 

 casion of the great earthquake at Lisbon in 1755, 

 a flock of sheep were drowned in their cot in the 

 neighbourhood of Lossiemouth, near Elgin, by 

 the overflowing of the tide, although far removed 

 from ordinary high-water-mark. Assuming this 

 mountain to have been a volcano, are there any 

 others in Great Britain ? While on the subject 

 of mountains in that quarter, there is another 

 which also demands attention for quite a different 

 reason, the Hill of Dun-o-Deer, in the parish of 

 Insch : a conical hill of no great elevation, on the 

 top of which stand the remains of a vitrified fort 



