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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 221. 



p. 249.), entitled " Christmas within doors in the 

 north of Germany." The passage (apparently 

 from Coleridge's journal) is dated " Ratzeburg, 

 1799." It is, I think, also extracted in Knight's 

 Half-hours with the best Authors. Coleridge went to 

 Germany in 1798 (Biog. Lit, vol. i. p. 211. note) ; 

 but I imagine the passage I refer to did not appear 

 till 1818, when The Friend was published in 

 three volumes (Biog. Lit., vol. ii. p. 420.). As 

 the book is so common, I do not think it worth 

 while to copy out the account. Zeus has by this 

 time, I hope, had a Christmas Yggdrasil in his 

 Olympus. Eryx. 



Derivation of the Word " Cash " (Vol. viii., 

 p. 386.). — May not the word cash be connected 

 with the Chinese coin bearing that name, which 

 Mr. Martin, in his work on China (vol. i. p. 176.), 

 describes as being — 



".The smallest coin in the world, there being about 

 1000 to 1500 (cash) in a dollar, J. e. one-fifth to one- 

 seventh of a farthing." 



If I am not mistaken, the coin in question is 

 perforated in the centre to permit numbers of 

 the pieces being strung together, payments being 

 made in so many strings of cash. W. W. E. T. 



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