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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Alfred's Orosiiis, bv Dr. Bell 



Page 



Remarkable Proposition concerning Ireland, by H. 



Kersley .__-.-- 

 Kews : a few " old " Materials for its Elucidation, by 



.S. W. Singer 



Follv Lore : — Ch^rmini? for Warts _ - - 



Minnr Notes :. — Capture of Henry VI. — The New 



Temple ------ 



177 

 179 



180 

 181 



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Queries : — 



Essaves of certain Paradoxes: Poem on Nothing, by 

 S.W. Singer 182 



Minor Queries: — Papers of Perjury — Church Rates — 

 St. Thomas of Lancaster's .Accomplices — Prelates of 

 France—Lord Chancellor's O.ith —Mediaeval Nomen- 

 clature — Sir Christopher Sibthorp — Alarm - - 182 



Replies : — 



Shakspeare's Use of" Delighted," by Samuel Hickson - 183 

 En:xllsh Comedians in Germany - - - - 184 



Acliilles and tiie Tortoise ----- 185 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — " Barura" and " Sarum " — 

 Countess of Oesinond — IMicbael Servetus, alias Heves 

 — Caxton's Printing-office — Somagia —Various Modes 

 of Interment among the Ancients — Guy's Porridge- 

 pot—" Welcome the coming, speed the parting (iuest " 

 — "A Chrysostoni to smoothe his Band in " — William 

 of Wykeham— Dutch Language— "A Frog he would," 



fee City Sanitary Laws — Sanitary Laws of other 



Days — Mich.iel Scott, the Wizard — Clerical Cos- 

 tame — The Curfew — Welsh Language — Armenian 

 Language — North Sides of Churchyards unconse- 

 crated — " Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt " — Unicorn 

 — .ibbey of St. VVandrille, Normandy, &c. - - 186 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

 Books ami Odd Volinnes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements - - . . 



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i^otcS. 



AliFRED S OROSinS, 



The twocxceodiii'jly valiifihlo elucidations which 

 the ircd^jniphy of I'Cing AltVeil reliilino; to Gei'- 

 niany (iiitiTCiihitcd in the royal author's tr:iitsla- 

 tioii of Orosius), has received from your learueil 

 contributoi-s Mr. K. T. IIa.mpson (Vol. i., p. '257.) 

 and Mr. S. W. Singer (Vol. i., p. 313.) induce me 

 to offer some new views on the same subject. 

 From my having; ])ass<,'d a lon^ series of years in 

 the countries descril)(;(l, and read and examined all 

 that continental authors, as well as Eiifjlislinien, 

 liave written or conjectured on the subject, 1 trust 

 that my opiulons, though difiering from all hitherto 



received, may not be unworthy the attention of 

 these gentlemen, and of your other numerous sub- 

 scribers. I shall, however, at present, not to ex- 

 ceed the necessary limitation of your articles, 

 restrict myself to a ccmsideiation of the very dis- 

 puted Cwenas and the Cioen-sae, which both the 

 gentlemen have not alluded to. 



The universal agreement amongst the conmien- 

 tators (with the two solitary exceptions I shall 

 hereafter mention), by which this sea is taken for 

 the White Sea, is diverting, and has been the 

 primary sourceofmany of their errors, and of that 

 most monster one, by which Othere's narrative 

 has been made the relation of a voyage round the 

 North Cape to Archangel. It is difficult to^ say 

 who may have first broached the brilliant idea. 

 Spelmann's anncjtators, his alumni Oxonienses of 

 University College, seem to have left the matter 

 without much consideration, in which they were 

 pretty servilely followed by Bussasus, though not 

 so much so as to justify Professor Ingram's remark, 

 "that his notes were chiefly extracted thence." 

 (Pref. viii.) Professor Murray of Gottingen (1765), 

 and Langebeck, in his Scriptores Rei-um Dani- 

 carum (1773), make no mention of these arctic 

 discoveries ; and the latter is satisfied that the 

 Cwenas are the Amazons of Adam of Bremen : — 



" De Quenorum priscis Sedibus et Quenlandiae 

 situ, vide Torfa-us, Hist. Nurwiy. i. 140. Adamus 

 IJremeiis, pp. 58, 59. 61., per Amazoiies et terrain 

 FcEuiinarum volult Quenoncs et Qucnlandiam jntel- 

 Ugi." 



and it remains, therefore, to the next commenta- 

 tor, John Ileinholil Forster (the companion navi- 

 gator with Sir Joseph Banks), to have been the 

 first to whom we owe tlie inii)ortaiit error. He was 

 praised by Dairies Barrington, for whose edition 

 he gave the notes afterwards reproduced in his 

 Northern Voyages of Discovery ; but still with cer- 

 tain reservations. The honour;ible translator found 

 some negative evidences which seemed to militate 

 against the idea tliat the voyage couUl have e.x- 

 temled into the arctic circle; for, in such a case, 

 Otliere wouM hardly h;ive refrained from mention- 

 ing the perpetual day of those regions ; the northern 

 lights, which he must have experienced ; to which 



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