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No. 44.] 



Saturday, August 31. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes ; — 



Gravesend Boats - - - - - - 209 



Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E. F. 



Riiiihanlt - - - - - - - 211 



Dpvotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine Parr, 



by Dr. Charlton - - - - - .212 



."Sngg'Stinns for rhean Bonks of Reference - - 213 



Rih, why tlie first Woman formed from - - - 213 



Minor 'Xotes : — Cinderella, or the Class Slipper — 



Mistletoe on Oaks — Omnibuses — Havock — Schlegel 



on Church Property in England - - - 214 



Queries : — 



P. Mathien's Life of Sejanns .... 215 



The Antiquity of Smoking _ , - _ 21fi 



.Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. .... 2I6 



Minor Queries: — City Olfires — TNIeaning of Hare, 

 finder — Saffron-bag — Bishop Berl<ley's successful 

 Experiments — Unknown Poitrait — Custom of selling 

 Wives — Hepbnrn Crest and Motto — Concolinel — 

 " One Holy. Catholic and Apostolic Church " — The 

 Norfolk l")ialect — Sir John Ferret — " Antiquitas sae- 

 culi juventus mundi " . . . . - 216 



Replies: — 



Derivation of " News " - . . . . 218 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Swords worn in Public—. 

 Quarles' Pension — Franz von Sickingen — " Noli me 

 tantrere" — Dr. Bowring's Translations — Countess 

 of Desmond— Yorkshire Dales — Sir Thomas Her. 

 hert's Memoirs — Alarum — Practice of Scalping 

 among the Scythians — Gosp-l Tree — Warlinet — 

 " Yote " or " Yeot " — Map of Londcm — Wood. 



carving. Snow Hill — Waltlieof — The Dodo 



" Under tiif Rose " — Frgh, Kr, or Argh — Royal 

 Supporters — The Frog and the Crow of Ennow - 218 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 222 



Books ami C)(l(i Volumes Wanted - _ _ 223 



Ntitices to Correspondents - . _ _ 223 



Advertisements ...... 223 



JJotr^. 



GRAVESENI) BOATS. 



While so mwh has been said of coaches, in the 

 early niiinKcr.-* of " Notes and (iuERiKs" and else- 

 where, very little notice has been taken of another 

 nuxle of convey aiiee which has now become very im- 

 portant, r think it may amuse some of your readers 

 to com])are a modern CJravesend boat and passajje 

 with the account given by Daniel Defoe, in the year 

 1734: and as it is contained in what I believe to 

 be one of hi.-f least known works, it may i)rol)ably 

 be new to most of them. In his Great Law of 



Subordination, after describing the malpractices of 

 hackney coachmen, he proceeds: — 



" The next are the watermen; and, indeed, the in- 

 solence of these, though they are under some limita- 

 tions too, is yet such at lliis time, tliat it stands in 

 greater need than any other, of severe laws, and those 

 laws being put in speedy execution. 



" Some years ago, one of these very people being steers- 

 man of a passage-boat between London and Giavesend 

 drown'd three.and. fifty people at one time. The boat 

 was bound from Gravcs-ud to London, was very full 

 of passengers aiul goods, and deep loaden. The wind 

 blew very hard at south-west, which being against them, 

 obliged them to turn to windward, so the seamen call 

 it, when they tack from side to side, to make their 

 voyage against the wind by the help of the tide. 



" The passengers were exceedingly frighted when, 

 in one tack stretching over the stream, in a place 

 call'd Long-Reach, where the river is very broad, the 

 waves broke in upon the boat, and not only wetted 

 thein all, but threw a great deal of v.-rter into the boat, 

 and tiiey all begg'd of the steersnan or master not to 

 venture again. He, sawey and impudent, mock'd them, 

 ask'd some of the poor i'righted women if they were 

 afraid of going to the Devil ; bid them say their prayers 

 and the like, and then stood over again, as it were, in a 

 jest. The storm continuing, he shipji'd a great deal of 

 water that time also. By this time the rest of the 

 watermen begun to perswade him, and told him, in 

 short, tliat if lie stood over again the boat would founder, 

 for that .she was a great deal the deeper for the water 

 she had taken in, and one of them begg'd of him not 

 to venture; he swore at the fellow, call'd him fool, 

 bade him let him alone to his business, and he would 

 warrant him ; then used a vulgar sea-proverb, which 

 such fellows have in their mouths, ' Blow Devil, the 

 more wind, the better boat.' 



" The fellow told him in so many words he would 

 drown all the passengers, and before his fice began to 

 strip, and so did two more, that they inight be in con- 

 dition to swim for their lives. This extremely territ'y'd 

 the jjassengers, who, having a cloth or tilt over tliem, 

 were in no condition to save their lives, so that there 

 was a dreadful cry among tliein, and some of the men 

 were making way to come at the steersman to make 

 him by force let tly the sail and stand back for the 

 shore; but l)efbre they could get to him the waves 

 broke in upon the boat and carried them all to the 

 bottom, none escaping but the three watermen that 

 were ))repar'd to swim. 



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