May 27. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



501 



appears, is supported by universal MS. authority, 

 as well as by that of the other versions. B. H. C. 



The paronomasia of Kipho (=E.ock) was made 

 in the Syro- Chaldaic tongue, the vernacular lan- 

 guage of* our Lord and his disciples. The apostle 

 John, writing in Greek (i. 43.), explains the mean- 

 ing of Kipho (Krj<pas) by the usual Greek phrase 

 o ep/j.r)i>eueTcu Uerpos, which phrase was necessarily 

 omitted in the Syriac version, where this word 

 Kipho was significant, in the original sense, as 

 used by our Lord, and therefore needed no such 

 hermeneutic explanation. Had our Lord spoken 

 in Greek, and had the name Krjcpas been idem sonans 

 with D'ED (Hab. ii. 11.) — which, however, is not 

 the case, — some slender support might have been 

 thereby afforded to Mr. Margoliouth's argu- 

 ment ; but as he admits that our Lord did not 

 speak in the Greek tongue, such argument falls 

 to the ground as void of all probability. 



T. J. BrjCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



WHITTINGTON S STONE. 



(Vol. ix., p. 397.) 



The disappearance of this celebrated memorial 

 of a questionable legend, seems to have been satis- 

 factorily accounted for. The newspapers inform 

 us that it has been taken to a mason's yard for the 

 purpose of reparation. 



Those who lament the removal of the stone on 

 which, as they imagine, the runaway apprentice 

 sat listening to the bells of Cheap, will perhaps be 

 surprised to hear that the object of their regret 

 is at least the third of the stones which have suc- 

 cessively stood upon the spot long since the days 

 of Whittington. 



1. In a learned and interesting paper commu- 

 nicated to the pages of Sylvanus Urban (G. M. 

 Dec. 1852) by T. E. T. (a well-known and re- 

 spected local antiquary, who will yet, it is sin- 

 cerely hoped, enrich our libraries with a work on 

 the ancient history of the northern suburbs, a 

 task for which he is pre-eminently qualified), it is 

 shown that in all probability the site in question 

 was once occupied by a wayside cross, belonging 

 to the formerly adjacent lazar-house and chapel 

 of St. Anthony. A certain engraving of 1776, 

 mentioned by Mr. T., and which is now before me, 

 represents a small obelisk or pyramid standing 

 upon a square base, and surmounted by a cross, 

 apparently of iron. The stone (popularly regarded 

 as the original) was removed in 1795 by "one 



S ," the surveyor of the roads. Having been 



broken, or as another account states, sawn in two, 

 the halves were placed as curb-stones against the 

 posts on each side of Queen's Head Lane in the 

 Lower Street. (Nelson's Hist, of Islington, 1811, 

 p. 102. ; Gent. Mag., Sept. and Oct. 1824, pp. 200. 



290. ; Lewis's Hist, of Islington, 1841, p. 286.) 

 In Adams's Picturesque Guide to the Environs of 

 London, by E. L. Blanchard (a recent but date- 

 less little work, which I chanced to open at a 

 book- stall a day or two ago), the present Queen's 

 Head tavern in the Lower Street is mentioned as 

 containing certain relics of its predecessor, " with 

 the real Whittington stone (it is said) for a 

 threshold." 



2. Shortly after the removal of this supposed 

 " original," a new memorial was erected, with the 

 inscription " Whittington's Stone." This was, for 

 some cause, removed by order of the church- 

 wardens in May, 1821. 



3. In his second edition, 1823, Nelson says, 

 "The present stone was set up in 1821, by the 

 trustees of the parish ways." This is the stone 

 which has lately been removed. H. G. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photographic Experience. — I send you the Rev. W. 

 Le Mottee's and mine : 



W. Le M. 



1. 6 minutes' exposure. 



2. Sea-side. 



{Iod. — Double iod. sol. from 25 gr. N. A. to 1 oz. 

 Exc. —5m 50 gr. A. N. A. 5m G. A. Aq. 2 drs. 

 Dev.— 1° 50 gr. A. N. A. and G. A. part. aeq. 2° 

 G. A. 



4. Turner. 



5. | inch. 



6. 3 inches. 



7. Diam. lens 3 in. Foe. length parallel rays 12| in. 

 Maker, Slater. Picture 8.!, x 6^. 



T. L. M. 



1. 10 minutes. 



2. Sea-side. 



{Iod. 

 Exc. As Le M. 

 Dev. 



4. Turner. 



5. | inch. 



6. 3 1 inches. 



7. Diam. lens 3\ in. Foe. length 17^ in. Maker, 

 Slater. Picture llix9j. 



I have given the development according to the plan 

 usually followed, for the sake of comparison ; but 

 where it is desirable to work out the shadows fully, it 

 is far better to give longer exposure in the camera 

 (three times that above given), and develop with gallo- 

 nitrate of the strength used to excite, finishing with 

 gallic acid. The time varies with the subject ; a cot- 

 tage among trees requiring 12 to 14 minutes. Almost 

 all the statements I have seen, giving the time, do so 

 absolutely; it is well to remind photographers, that 

 these convey no information whatever, unless the focal 

 length for parallel rays, and the diameter of the dia- 

 phragm, are also given : the time, in practice as well 

 as in theory, varying (cateris paribus) directly as the 



