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eagles were known in Borrowdale. With regard to this last point, Mr. 

 Miller says — " From J. Dixon I learn that the eagles' nests in Eagle 

 Crag were robbed by W. Walker and W. Youdale in 1772 or 3, and 

 after that they got out a brood in Wything's Crag, above Stonethwaite, 

 which was the last time they were known to build, probably about 1784, 

 as stated in your account." 



In 1853 and 4, Dr. Henry of Haffield, Ledbury, applied to Otley 

 for details of Dr. Dalton, which were published in the Life of that 

 celebrated chemist ; a letter of Otley's (to be quoted farther on) to Dr. 

 Henry is of interest, as it is written in a beautifully clear hand, and shows 

 how his mind was in activity in his 90th year. 



Among miscellaneous M.S. memoranda is the following concerning 

 the inscriptions on the Keswick Town Hall Bell : — 



" Many inscriptions nearly of the same age as that on the Keswick 

 bell, with figures in Arabic numerals, are said to have been discovered 

 in diffrent parts of England, as for instance — one at Rumsey in Hamp- 

 shire, dated ion; another at Wignall Hall in Hertfordshire, dated 1016; 

 another at Daresbury in Cheshire, dated mo; another on the rock at 

 Alnwick, dated 115 5; another on the tomb of Gilbert de Astlay in 

 Keighley church, Yorkshire, dated 1023; another at Bigland, near 

 Cartmel in Lancashire, inscribed upon a beam, and dated 1161; and 

 another upon Tice's Well, on Dartmoor, dated 1168. 



The authorities for some of the above are the Letters of Leonard 

 Atkins; Cooke's Topography of Lancashire, p. 104; Carrington's 

 Dartmoor, in Note 118; Baines's Yorkshire Gazetteer, I. 167, 218; 

 Archaiologia, vol. 113. 



It is asserted that Gerbert, who was afterwards Pope under the title 

 of Silvester II., brought this notation from the Moors of Spain into 

 France about 960, and that it was known among us in Britain in the 

 beginning of the eleventh century, if not somewhat sooner. (Nicholson's 

 Encyclopoedia Arith.) Dr. Wallis, in a letter inserted in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions (266), shows that Arabic numerals were used in 

 England, Anno 1090. See also Bibliotheca Literaria, viii. 25." 



