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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 213. 



■whirled me past that town, I have lost my means 

 of periodical communication with him. He had, 

 not long before I saw him last, returned from the 

 Holy Land, where he assured me he had visited 

 every spot that could be identified mentioned in 

 the New Testament. He had also been some time 

 in E^ypt, and had brought home a great quantity 

 of Egyptian antiquities. The lesser ones he had in 

 the first floor of a carver and gilder's in Great Queen 

 Street, between the Freemason's Tavern and i 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields. He was then anxious that 1 

 these should be bought for the British Museum, i 

 and I think that at his request I wrote to the Earl ' 

 of Aberdeen to mention this, and that the answer ', 

 was that there was already so large a collection in j 

 the Museum, that more, as they must most of : 

 them be duplicates, would be of no use. [ 



What has become of them I know not. I was i 

 told that a number of his larger antiquities, stone | 

 and marble, were for some time placed on Waterloo I 

 Bridge, that being a very quiet place, where peo- I 

 pie might view them without interruption. I did 

 not happen to be in London that season, and there- 

 fore did not see them. J. Ss. 



[The whole of Mr. Sams's collection of Egyptian 

 antiquities were bought by Joseph Mayer, Esq , I\S. A., 

 of Liverpool, about two years ago, to add to his pre- 

 vious assemblage of similar monuments, and are placed 

 by him, with a very valuable collection of mediaeval 

 antiquities, in the Egyptian Museum, 8. Colquitt Street, 

 Liverpool. The small charge of sixpence for each visit 

 opens the entire collection to the public ; but it is a 

 lamentable fact, that the curiosity or patriotism of the 

 inhabitants does not cover Mr. Mayer's expenses by a 

 large annual amount] 



" Could we with ink" S,-c. (Vol. viii., pp. 127. 180. 

 257. 422.). — Have not those correspondents who 

 have answered this Query overlooked the con- 

 cluding verse of the gospel according to St. John, 

 of which it appears to me that the lines in question 

 are an amplification without improvement ? Ma- 

 homet, it is well known, imitated many parts of the 

 Bible in the Koran. E. G. E. 



" Populus vult decipi" (Vol. vii., p. 578.: 

 Vol. viii., p. 65.). — As an illustration of this 

 expression the following anecdote is given. When 

 my father was about thirteen years old, being in 

 London he was, on one occasion in company with 

 Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who, calling him to 

 him, laid his hand on his head, and said, " My 

 little boy, I want you to remember one thing as 

 long as you live — the people of this world love 

 to be cheated." Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Red Hair (Vol. vii., p. 616. ; Vol. viii., p. 86.). 

 — It is frequently stated that the Turks are ad- 

 mirers of red hair. I have lately met with a 



somewhat different account, namely, that the 

 Turks consider red-haired persons who are fat as 

 " first-rate " people, but those who are lean as the 

 very reverse. M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



" Land of Green Ginger " (Vol. viii., p. 227.). 



— The authority which I am able to afford Mb. 

 Richardson is simply the tradition of the place, 

 which I had so frequently heard that I could 

 scarcely doubt the truth of it ; this I intended to 

 be deduced, when I said I did not recollect that 

 the local histories gave any derivation, and that it 

 was the one "generally received by the inha- 

 bitants." 



To my mind the solution brought forward by 

 Mk. Bdckton (Vol. viii., p. 303.) carries the 

 greatest amount of probability with it of any yet 

 proposed ; and should any of your correspondents 

 have the opportunity of looking through the un- 

 published history of Hull by the Rev. De la 

 Pryme, " collected out of all the records, charters, 

 deeds, mayors' letters, &c. of the said town," and 

 now placed amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the 

 British Museum, I am inclined to think it is very 

 likely it would be substantiated. 



In Mr. Frost's valuable work on the town, 

 which by the way proves it to have been " a place 

 of opulence and note at a period long anterior to 

 the date assigned to its existence by historians," 

 he differs materially from Mr. Richardson, in 

 considering that Hollar's plate was " engraved 

 about the year 1630," not in 1640 as he states. 

 There is also another which appeared between the 

 time of Hollar and Gent, in Meisner's Libellus 

 novus politiciis emblematicus Civitatum, published 

 in 1638, which though not "remarkable for accu- 

 racy of design," is well worthy of notice. It bears 

 the title " Hull in Engellandt," and also the fol- 

 lowing curious inscriptions, which I copy for the 

 interest of your readers : 



'• Career nonnunquam firmum propugnaculura. 

 Noctua clausa manet in carcere firmo; Insidias volu- 

 crum vetat enim cavea." 



" Wann die EuU eingesperret ist, 

 Schadet ihr nicht der Feinde list, 

 Der Kefig ist ihr nicht unniitz, 

 Sondern gibt wieder ihr Feind schiitz." 



These lines refer to a curious engraving on the 

 left side of the plan, representing an owl impri- 

 soned in a cage with a quantity of birds about, 

 endeavouring to assail it. R. W. Elliot. 



Clifton. 



" / put a spoke in his wheeV (Vol. viii., p. 351.). 



— Does not this phrase mean simply interference, 

 either for good or evil ? I fancy the metaphor is 

 really derived from putting the bars, or spokes, 

 into a capstan or some such machine. A number 



