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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 277. 



copy belonged to the same edition with that which 

 we are now considering, it will go far, I think, to 

 prove that he was both the editor and the au- 

 thor of the work. The following extract from a 

 note by Mr. Bohn, giving an account of the sale 

 of Sir Philip Francis's library, Feb. 3, 1838, is of 

 service as supplying the information of which we 

 are in search : 



" Among the lots which more particularly concern the 

 present inquiry were several different editions of Junius's 

 Letters, and some of the printed inquiries as to their 

 authorship. These sold for rather high prices, as the fol- 

 lowing quotations will show : 



" 416. Junius's Letters, 2 vols., with some MS. correc- 

 tions of the text, and notes by Sir Philip Francis. In 

 calf. 1783. 12/. 12s, Armstrong." 



"417. Junius's Letters, with notes by Heron, 2 vols., 

 with some MS. notes and corrections of the text, by Sir 

 P. Francis. 1804. 21, 2s. Armstrong." 



"421. Junius. A collection of the Letters ofAtticus, 

 Lucius, and Junius ; with MS. notes and corrections, and 

 blanks filled up by Sir Philip Francis. 1769. And other 

 tracts in the volume. 3/. 5s. Armstrong." 



" These and most of the other annotated books were 

 bought, under the pseudonj'me of Armstrong, for Mr. 

 H. R. Francis, then master of a Grammar School at 

 Kingston-upon-Hull, in whose possession they still are." 

 — Wade's Junius, vol. ii. p. 86. 



I have omitted In the above list those books 

 mentioned by Mr. Bohn which had no immediate 

 connexion with our present subject. 



Thus, by another chain of evidence wholly un- 

 lookcd for, and totally different from all that was 

 produced in Junius Identified, we are again led to 

 the conclusion that Sir Philip Francis was the 

 author of Junius's Letters, John Taylor. 



7, Leonard Place, Kensington. 



SANITARY HINTS ON THE CRIMEA. 



The elevated portion of the Crimea, which lies 

 between Cape Chersonese and KafFa, and extends 

 some twenty miles Inland, may be said to be better 

 suited to the constitutions of Englishmen than 

 many places at which our soldiers are stationed. 

 Nevertheless, It is not the climate for a winter en- 

 campment. The rest of the peninsula should be 

 avoided at all seasons of the year. In autumn it 

 would be the destruction of an array. 



With regard to the positions now occupied by 

 our own troops, or by our allies, there are some 

 sanitary hints to which I wish to give additional 

 circulation. They are quite independent of the 

 doings or mis-doings of official persons, whether 

 at home or abroad. 



Sebastopol, — 



■ " Trente mille hommes [soldats], abrit^s par les tentes 

 d'un camp, pretent leurs bras h ces gigantesques meta- 

 morphoses [des travaux de nivellement, 1837], et c'est 

 Ik un coup d'ceil vraiment plein d'interet, que cette foule 

 laborieuse, toute vetue de toile blanche, s'agitant et se 



croisant dans le nuage de cette poussifere qu'ils enlfevent 

 sac par sac, et pour ainsi dire poign^e par poignee, aux 

 mamelons abaisses : veritable travail de fourmilifere, oil la 

 division infinie des forces arrive h, la longue au meme re- 

 sultat que I'^nergie des moteurs et la puissance des ma- 

 chines. Cependant, parnii cette troupe active et perse- 

 yeran te, Mn^tfau redoutable s'etait manifest^: une ophthalmie 

 intense, V ophthalmie egyptienne, contagieuse selon les uns, 

 epidemique, disaient les autres, exergait des ravages mal- 

 heureusement trap constates. On Valtribuait gin'eralement 

 a la prodigieuse poussiere que les vents font tourhillonner 

 sur ces coteaux, depouilles depuis que les travaux de nivelle- 

 ment ont ite entrepris. 3Iais quelle que soit la cause de ce 

 mal, ce tnal est horrible. Vingt-quatre heures suffisent 

 souvent a corrompre Vceil entier et a Varracher de son 

 orbite." — Anatole de Demidoff, 1840. 



Inkerman. — 



" L'histoire de la Crimee n'oiFre sur Inkerman que des 

 notions fort incertaines. Selon quelques savants chroni- 

 queurs, les temps antiques de la Grfece I'ont connue floris- 

 sante sous le nom de Theodosie ; d'autres y veulent 

 retrouver le Stenos de la geographic des Grecs. Pallas, 

 au contraire, est dispose k croire que les G^nois sont les 

 premiers qui se soient etablis sur ces rochers escarpes. 

 Aujourd'hui des murailles en mine, quelques restes de 

 tours et un grand nombre de petites grottes alignees sur 

 le flanc abrupte de la montagne, sont tout ce qu'on peut 

 voir dans une courte visite. Les habitants de Sevastopol 

 qui vous accompagnent dans cette promenade vous conseillent 

 ordinairement d'abreger votre sejour, tant les marais voisins 

 ont une mauvaise renommee." — Anatole de Demidoff, 

 1840. 



Eupatoria, — 



" Si cette grande ville tatare [Eupatorie alias Kozlof ] 

 fut autrefois florissante, il faut avouer qu'on ne trouve 

 presque plus aujourd'hui que des ruines pour temoigner 

 de cette ancienne prosperite. — Les vcritables causes de 

 I'abandon de Kozlof sont la prosperite envaliissante 

 d'Odessa, et I'accroissement du cabotage dans la partie du 

 port de Sevastopol reservee au commerce. II faut dire 

 aiissi, dussions-nous trouver des contradicteurs, que le climat 

 de cette cote et son voisinage des etangs salins de Salt doivent 

 etre contraires a la sante des habitants de Kozlof. Durant 

 notre sejour — il nous fut aise de reniarquer parmi les ha- 

 bitants des symptomes assez nombreux defevres etidemiques." 

 — Anatole de Demidoff, 1840. 



Bolton Corney. 



" QUEER THINGS IN QUEER PLACES. 



I have sometimes thought of asking a corner in 

 "N. & Q." for the insertion, under the above 

 heading, of those articles which a book-worra 

 occasionally meets in the course of very miscel- 

 laneous reading, and to which may be applied the 

 distich : 



" The thing we know is rather strange and queer, 

 And wonder ' how the devil it came there ? ' " 



Take as a specimen the following, which would 

 well suit Cunningham's Handbook of London, but 

 looks very incongruous in the midst of a — "funeral 

 sermon ! " 



Sometime since I purchased, among other old 

 books, one entitled Oi-atio Panegyrica in obitum 

 Jacobi Frey, Basil, 1636. I was induced to buy 



