Feb. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Ill 



with this tree. Barbie du Bocage, in his work on 

 Sacred Geography (edit. Migiie, Paris, 1848), s. 

 voc. Itulie, has the ibllowing extraordinary state- 

 ment : 



" II parait que les Pheniciens tiraient differents produits 

 de I'ltalie, puisque Ezechiel (ch. xxvii. G. in the Vul- 

 gate) parle de ce qui vieiit d'ltalie, et sert h. fairs les 

 chuiubres et les magasins des vaisseaux tyriens. Peut- 

 etre le propLete enteud-il pailer des bois precieux 

 d'orangers, de citronuiers et autres que I'ltalie douue eu 

 aboudance." 



No doubt the Vulgate is in error in translating 

 Chittiui by Italy, and the writer in supposing that 

 the Phoenicians derived the wood of the orange- 

 tree from that country. B. 11. C. 



Leverets marked with white Stars (Vol. x., 

 p. 523.). — The Rev. W.B. Daniel, who was well 

 known as a sportsman in his day, has the follow- 

 ing passage in his book on Rural Sports, vol. i. 

 p. 448. : 



" In the spring of 1799, in the orchard of W. Cole, of 

 Heiions Bampstead, in Essex, seven young hares were 

 found ill one form ; each was marked with a star of white 

 in its forehead. This mark, according to received opinion, 

 is always seen when the young exceed two in number." 



I well remember, more than thirty-five years ago, 

 having seen four \evy young leverets in a form, 

 all marked with white stars on their forehead, 

 and doubtless belonging to the same litter, for 

 they were under a balk in the parish of Little 

 Chesterfbrd, then unenclosed. 



This corroboration of Mr. Daniel's theory is, 

 however, shaken by the testimony of three of my 

 gamekeepers, who have had much experience in 

 such matters, and have been recently questioned 

 on the subject. One of them states his having 

 seen, some years ago, at Shortgrove, in this county, 

 a litter or cast, as he expressed himself, of four 

 leverets, 07ie of which only had a white star, but 

 that he had often observed a single young rabbit 

 marked in the same way. Another keeper had 

 occasionally seen 07ie young hare with the white 

 mark, and the third keeper had never observed or 

 heard of the peculiarity. 



Perhaps some of the correspondents of " N. & 

 Q." may throw farther light on tlie subject ; 

 apropos to which, it has often struck me as a 

 matter of regret, that gamekeepers are in general 

 illiterate persons, whereas they might, if better 

 educated, have ample opportunities of observing 

 the habits of birds and wild animals, and making 

 valuable discoveries, as well as confuting vulgar 

 traditions, which have been copied from one au- 

 thority to another, till they have obtained a 

 certain degree of credibility, without resting on 

 any good foundation. Braybrooke. 



Audley End. 



Major Andre (Vol. viii. pasxim). — Sebviens 

 " being engaged upon a biography of Major 



Andre," I send the following, trusting it may be 

 acceptable. 



" Colonel Hamilton to Miss Schuyler. 



" Head Quarters of the Armj-, 



Tappan, October 2, 1780. 



..." Poor Andre suffers to-day. Everything that is 

 amiabi. in virtue, in fortitude, in delicate sentiment, 

 and accomplished manners, plead for him ; but hard- 

 hearted pohcy calls for a sacrifice. He must die. I send 

 you my account of Arnold's affair; and to justify mxself 

 to your sentiments, I must inform you that I urged a 

 compliance with Andre's request to be shot, and 1 do not 

 think it would have had an ill effect. But some people 

 are only sensible to motives and policy, and sometiniea 

 from a narrow disposition mistake it. 



" f'Vheii Andre's tale coines to be told, and present resent- 

 ment is over, the refusing him the privilege of choosing 

 the manner of his death will be branded with too much 

 obstinacy. 



"It was proposed to me to suggest to him the idea of an 

 exchange for Arnold; but I knew I should have forfeited 

 his esteem by doing it, and therefore declined it. As a 

 man of honour he could not but reject it ; and 1 would not 

 for the world have proposed to him a thing which must 

 have placed me in the unamiable light of supposing him 

 capable of meanness, or of not feeling myself the impro- 

 priety of the measure. I confess to you I had the 

 weakness to value the esteem of a dying man because I 

 reverenced his merit." 



The much-respected lady to whom the above 

 letter was addressed, died at AVashington, No- 

 vember 9th, 1854, at the advanced age of ninety- 

 seven years, having outlived her husband. General 

 Hamilton, for more than half a century. W. W. 



Malta. 



Designation of Works under Review (Vol. ix., 

 p. 516. ; Vol. X., p. 473.). — I beg to thank Mr. 

 Forbes for reminding your correspondents of my 

 original Query. I am as much surprised as he is 

 that some one has not taken the trouble to answer 

 it. Caption is a pure Americanism. To save the 

 trouble of reference, I beg to repeat my Query : 



Under what technical term should a reviewer 

 refer to the group of works forming the heading 

 of the article ? Example : " The subject is ela- 

 borately treated in the second work of our * * *." 

 What word ought technically to supply this 

 blank ? C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Tobacco-smoMng (Vol. x. passini). — The fol- 

 lowing passage appears to have been not yet 

 quoted, and will be interesting both to smokers 

 and to teetotallers. Speaking of Bechion, or 

 coltsfoot, as a remedy for a bad cough, Pliny 

 says : 



" Hujus aridas cum radice fumus per arundinem, 

 haustus et devoratus, veterem sanare dicitur tusaim ; sed 

 in singulos haustus passuin gusiandum est." — Nat. Hist. 

 XX vi. 16. 



That is, the smoke of the plant, dried along with 

 its root, when imbibed and inhaled through a 

 tube, is said to be a cure for a long-standing 



