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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 59. 



twelfth volume of the ArcJiceoIogia, y>. 114., is a 

 variety of fac-similes of water-marks used by our 

 early paper makers, exhibited in five large plates, 

 but it is not a little singular that the mark of John 

 Tate is omitted. Edward F. Kimbault. 



SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN ENGLISH. 



The accompanying specimens of foreign English 

 you may perhaps consider worth a coi'ner among 

 the minor curiosities of literature : — 



Basle. — 



" Bains ordiiiaires et artificials, tenu par B. Sieg- 

 muiid, Dr. in medicine, Basle. In this new erected 

 establishment, wliicli the Owner recommends best to 

 all foreigners are to liave, — Ordinary and artful baths, 

 russia and sulphury bagnios, pumphigs, artful mineral 

 waters, gauze lemonads, fournished apartments for 

 patients." 



Cologne. Title-page in lithograph. 



" Remembrance 07i the Cathedvul nf Cologne. — A 

 collection of his most scmatkable monumens, so as of 

 the most artful ornaraous and precious hilts of his 

 renaconed tresory. Draconed and lithographed by 

 Gerhardt Levy Elkan and Hallersch, collected by 

 Gerhd. Emans." 



Augsburg, Drei Mohren Hotel. Entry in tra- 

 vellers' book. 



" January 28. 1815 His Grace Arthur Wellcsley, 



Duke of Wellington, &c. tvc. &.C. Great honour ar- 

 rived at the bcgiiniing of this year to tlie tliree Moors: 

 this illuslrious warrior, whose glorious atchievements, 

 which, cradled in Asia, have filled Europe with his 

 renown, descended in it." 



Mount Etna. Printed notice found attached to 

 the wall of one of the rooms in the Casa degl' 

 Inglesi, Mount Etna, October, 1844: 



" In consequence of the damage suffered in tlie house 

 called English set on the Etna for the reprehensible 

 conduct of some persons there recovered, the following 

 provisional regulations are prescribed, authorized, and 

 granted to M. Gemmellaro*, who has the key of the 

 mentioned liouse for his labour, honour, and money 

 spent to finish sucli edifice, besides liis kind reception 

 for travellers curious to visit the mountain. 



" I. Any person desirous to get the key of the house 

 is requested to apply to M. G., and in case of his ab- 

 sence, to ... . signing liis name, title, and country, in 

 the same time tell the guide's and muleteer's name, 

 just to drive away those have been so rough to spoil 

 the moveables and destroy the stables .... are the 

 men to be particularly remarked. 



* The name of this gentleman will be recognised by 

 some of the readers of Notes and Queries as that of 

 a most indefatigable explorer of the wonders of the 

 mountain, and the author, in the Transactions of the 

 Catanian Academy, of excellent descriptions of its recent 

 eruptions. 



" II. Nobody is admitted without a certificate of 

 M. G., which will assure to have received his name, 

 &c. &c., except those are known by the fore-going 

 strangers. 



" III. According to the afore-mentioned articles, 

 nobody will take the liberty to go in the house and 

 force the lock of the door: he will really suflTer the 

 most severe pimishmcnt fixed against violence. 



" IV. Is not permitted to any body to put mules in 

 the rooms destined for the use of people, notwithstand- 

 ing the insufficiency of stables. It is forbidden like- 

 wise to dirtes the walls with pencil or coal. M. G. 

 will procure a blank book for those learned people 

 curious to write their observations. A particular care 

 must be taken for the moveables settled in the house. 



" V. The house must be left clean and without fire, 

 to avoid conflagration ; it is forbidden to leave rooms 

 or windows opened, as the house has been lately 

 damaged by the winds, snow, sand, &c. &c. ; the afore- 

 mentioned A. D., M. N. are imputed of negligence 

 and malice : persons neglecting to execute the above 

 article will be severely punished, and are obliged to 

 pay damages and expences. 



" VI. As soon as the traveller returns at Nicolosi, 

 either to S. Nicole I'Arena, will immediately deliver 

 the key to M. G., as it commonly happens that fo- 

 reigners are waiting for it. A certificate must be 

 likewise delivered, declaring that the afore-mentioned 

 regulations have been exactly executed. It is likewise 

 proper and just to reward 1\I. Gem. for the expense of 

 moveables, money, &c. &c., and for the advantage tra- 

 vellers may get to examine the "N'olcan, for better than 

 Emi)edocli, Amodei, Fazelli, Brydon, Spallanzani, and 

 great many others. BI. Gemm. has lately been au- 

 thorized to deny the key whenever is unkindly requested. 

 He is also absolutely obliged to inform the gen. of the 

 army, who is determined to punish with rigour their 

 insolence." 



(On the fly-leaf of the travellers' 



Mount Sinai. 

 book.) 



" Here in too were inscribed as in one legend, all 

 whose in the rule of tlie year come from different 

 parts, different cities and countries, pilgrims and tra- 

 vellers of any different rank and religion or profes- 

 sion, for advise and notice thereof to their posterity, 

 and even also in owr own of memory acknowledging. 

 1845, Mount Sinai." 



Viator. 



FOLK LORE. 



May -dew. — Every one has he.ird of the vir- 

 tues of " May-dew," but perhaps the complex su- 

 perstition following may be less generally known. 

 A respectable tradesman's wife in this town (Laun- 

 ceston) tells me that the poor people here say that 

 a swelling in the neck may be cured by the pa- 

 tient's going before sunrise, on the 1st of May, to 

 the grave of the last young man who has been 

 buried in the church-yard, and applying the dew, 

 gathered by passing the hand three times from the 



