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ceived its name from the river Zndus; and that 
Indus and "tvSos, are the Roman and Greek forms 
of Sindo, the name it was known by among the 
natives. Henry Kersey. 
Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone. 
[ We have received many other replies to this Query, 
referring “ Norruman” to Robertson’s History of 
America, and Humboldt’s Aspects, §c., vol. ii, p. 319. | 
Vox Populi Vox Dei (No. 20. p. 321.).— Your 
correspondent “ Qusiror” asks for the origin of 
the saying Vow populi Vow Det. Warwick, in his 
Spare Minutes (1637), says — 
“That the voice of the common people is the voice 
of God, is the common voice of the people; yet it is 
as full of falsehood as commonnesse. ‘The cry before 
Pilate’s judgment-seat, ‘Let him be crucified,’ was 
vox populi, ‘the ery of all the people.’ How far was it 
the voice of God?” 
M. 
[Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, in his valuable Zssay on 
the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion, p.172., 
has some very interesting remarks upon this proverb, 
which, “in its original sense, appears to be an echo of 
some of the sentences in the classical writers, which 
attribute a divine or prophetic character to common 
fame or rumour.” See pp. 172,173., and the accom- 
panying Notes. ] 
Dutch Language (No. 24. p. 383.).—“E. V.” 
will find Holtrop’s Dictionary in 2 vols. one of the 
best. Werninck’s Pocket Dictionary is very good: 
also Tauchnitz’s Dutch and French (pocket) : also 
Picard’s Hnglish and Dutch. Jansen’s is not bad. 
Swier’s Grammar is a good one; but I do not 
know whether there is any late edition. See 
Williams and Norgate, or Quaritch. 
Argpsw Koosz. 
[Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly 
answered this Query, by the following list : — 
Pyxt (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the 
Dutch Language, 8vo. Rotterd. 1826, 8s. 
Aun (F.) Neue hollandische Sprachlehre nebst Le-* 
sestucke, 12mo. Cref. 1841, 2s. 
Aun (F.) hollandische Umgangsprache, 12mo, 1846, 
Is. 6d. 
Picarnp (H.) A new Pocket Dictionary of the 
English and Dutch Languages, remodelled and cor- 
rected from the best Authorities. Zalt-bommel, 1843, 
10s. éd. 
DicrioNNAIRE 
Leipzig, 4s. 
HoLianpiscH u. 
16mo. 4s. ] 
Hollandais ect Frangais, 16mo. 
deutsehes Taschen-worterbuch. 
Salting. —Salt is said by all writers upon magic 
to be particularly disagreeable to evil spirits ; and 
it is owing to this noxious substance being dis- 
solved in holy water, that it has such power in 
scaring them away. Query, did not salt acquire 
this high character, and its use in all sacrifices, 
from its powers of resisting corruption ? 
Salt is used emblematically in many of our 
foreign universities. There is a book published 
at Strasburg as late as 1666, containing twenty 
plates, illustrating the several strange ceremonies 
of the “ Depositio.” The last represents the giving 
of the salt, which a person is holding on a plate in 
his left hand; and, with his right hand, about to 
put a pinch of it upon the tongue of each Becanus 
or Freshman. <A glass, probably holding wine, 
is standing near him. Underneath is the follow- 
ing couplet :— 
* Sal Sophie gustate, bibatis vinaque leta, 
Augeat immensus vos in utrisque Deus!” 
A copy of this rare book was sold in the Rev. 
John Brand’s collection. I have never seen it, 
and know it only from a MS. note in one of 
Brand’s Common Place Books now in my posses- 
sion. Epwarp I’. Rimpavrr. 
Vincent G'ookin (No. 24. p. 385.).—Your Querist 
“J.” is referred to Berry’s Kentish Pedigrees, 
where, at pp. 60. 195. 202. 270. and 113., he will 
find notices and a pedigree of the family Gookin; 
and therein it is shown that Vincent Gookin was 
the fourth son of John Gookin of Replecourt, co. 
Kent, by Katherine, dau. of William Dene of 
Kingston. 
In the early part of the 17th century, Sir Vin- 
cent Gookin, Knt. (why was he knighted?) was 
living at Highfield House, in the parish of Bitton, 
Gloucestershire. It appears by the register, that 
in 1635, Mary Gookin, Gentleman, and Samuel, 
son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at 
Bitton. 
In 1637, John Gookin of Highfield, aged 11 
years, was buried in the Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol. 
1637, Frances, dau. of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., 
and the Lady Judith, was baptized at Bitton. 
1637, Feb. 13. “Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., was 
buryed” at Bitton. 
1642, May 2. “Judith, the Lady Gookin, was 
buryed” at Bitton. 
There are no monuments remaining. 
Highfield, with the manor of Upton Cheyney, 
was a considerable estate in 1627, when it was 
passed by fine from John and Mary Barker to 
Vincent Gookin, Esq. 
In 1646, Vincent Gookin, Esq. (no doubt the 
knight’s son), and Mary his wife, and Robert 
Gookin their son, Gent., passed the same estates 
by fine to Dr. Samuel Bave, after which it is sup- 
posed the Gookins left the parish. In Sims’ 
Index are references to pedigrees under Gokin, 
Kent. Any further notices of Sir Vincent or his 
son would be acceptable to H. T. Exxacomnr. 
Bitton, May, 20. 1850. 
Sneck up (No. 29. p. 467.).— All Shakspearean 
[No. 30. 
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