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opinion, it is a very inefficient one, and there is no 

 doubt that " the Toledo blades in the Crystal 

 Palace" would stand it as well as any others of 

 moderate goodness. " The Toledo blades that 

 roll up in a circle" can be as easily made in Eng- 

 land as in Spain, but they are useless toys : there 

 is an English one in the Exhibition, Class viii.. 

 Case 200., which fits into the circular Toledo scab- 

 bard placed above it ; but they are only curious to 

 the uninitiated. What, then, is an efficient proof? 

 I reply, first strike the flat side of the blade on an 

 iron table (by means of a machine) with a force 

 of 300 to 400 lbs., and then on the edge and back 

 over a round piece of hard wood witli a force of 

 400 to 500 lbs. : after which thrust the point as 

 hard as possible against a thick iron plate and 

 through a cuirass, without turning or breaking it, 

 and bend so as to reduce the length in the pro- 

 portion of about one inch and a half to a foot. 

 When thus proved, a sword may be relied on, and 

 the operation may be seen every day at 27. Pall 

 Mall. Henry AVii>kinson. 



Dr. Young's " Narcissa" (Vol. iv., p. 22.). — 

 In reply to W. F. S. of Surdilon, it appears, from 

 the most authentic biographical accounts of Dr. 

 Young, that he had not any daughters, and only 

 one son ; and that the Narcissa of the Night 

 Thoughts was a daughter of his wife (Lady Eliza- 

 beth Lee), by her former husband. Colonel Lee. 

 The writer in the Evangelical Magazine must 

 therefore have written in ignorance of these facts 

 when he termed Narcissa Dr. Young's daughter : 

 or he may have spoken, in a loose way, of the 

 daughter-in-law as the daughter. J. M. 



Circulation of the Blood (Vol. ii., p. 475.). — 

 Having recently had occasion to look into the 

 woi'ks of Bede, I have found, in lib. iv., De 

 Elementis Philosophia;, tlie passage which was the 

 subject of my Query. Though not strictly in ac- 

 cordance with the established fact of the circu- 

 lation of the blood, it will yet be allowed to be a 

 near approximation to it. It is as follows : — 



" Sanguine in epate generate, per venas ad omnia 

 transit membra, calore quorum digestus, in eorum si- 

 militudinem transit : supcrfluitas, vero, partim per 

 sudorem exit, alia vero pars ad epar revertitur, ibi 

 decocta cum urlna exit descendcns, sedimenque vo- 

 catur ; sed si in fundo sit urina dicitur hypostasis; 

 si in medio, eneortim : si in summo nephile." — BedcE 

 Opera, vol. ii. p. 339., ed. Basiliae, mdlxiii. 



J. Mn. 



Dr. EJrington's Edition of Ussher (Vol. iii., 

 p. 496. ; Vol. iv., p. 10.). — There is still some ob- 

 scurity about the publication of the remaining 

 volumes of this important work, notwithstanding 

 Db. Todd's prompt communication on the sub- 

 ject. He speaks of the 14th volume half printed 

 off, and asks for information which may assist 

 him in completing it ; and then announces that 



highly desirable addition, viz. an Index, which is 

 to form the 17th volume; but of the projected 

 contents of vols. xv. and xvi., he says nothing.* 



In sjiite of Dr. Elrington's rejection of the 

 JBodi) of Diviniti/ (which is doubtless what Dk. 

 Todd refers to under the name of the System of 

 Theology), I would still venture to plead for at 

 least an uniform edition of it ; for there is surely 

 much force in the testimony of Dr. N. Bernard 

 (as quoted by Mr. Goode), that, whilst the Arch- 

 bishop was " indeed displeased at the publishing 

 of it, without his knowledge, but hearing of some 

 good fruit which hath been reaped by it, he hath 

 permitted it." 



" Several other editions, therefore," (Mr. Goode 

 adds) "were published in his lifetime; and being thus 

 published with his permission, must of course be con- 

 sidered as in all important points of doctrine represent- 

 ing his views." — Effects of Infant Baptism, pp. 312, 313. 



Possibly some of your correspondents might be 

 able to throw light on this point. 



It will scarcely be travelling out of the record 

 to entreat that the Index may be printed on any- 

 thing but the dazzling milled paper, which every- 

 body I should think must detest. C. W. B. 



Was Stella Swift's Sister? (Vol. iii., p. 450.).— 

 J. II. S. will find this question raised in The closing 

 Years of Dean Swift's Life, by W. E. Wilde, 

 M.R.I.A. : — 



" That Stella was the daughter of Sir Wm. Temple 

 appears more than probable ; but that Swift was his 

 son, and consequently her half brother, remains to be 

 proved. It has, it is true, been often surmised, from 

 the date of Orrery's book to the present time, but we 

 cannot discover in the supposition anything but vague 

 conjecture." 



Mr. Wilde, however, proceeds to quote in 

 favour of the opinion from an article in The Gen- 

 tleman's and London Magazine, pp. 555. to 560., 

 Dublin. Printed for John Exshaw, Nov. 1757. 



It is signed C. M. P. G. N. S. T. N. S. f 



The Mistletoe (Vol. ii., pp. 163. 214.).— The 

 mistletoe is common on almost every tree of our 

 Southern forests ; it is abundant on all the va- 

 rieties of the oak, and grows most luxuriously on 

 the trees near our watercourses. I have seen 

 some of our deciduous trees looking almost as 

 green in winter as when clothed in their own 

 foliage in summer, in consequence of the quantity 

 of mistletoe growing upon them. H. H. B. 



?/Iontc Cavallo, South Carolina. 



Family of Kyme (Vol. iv., p. 23.). — The match 

 of Kyme with Cicely, second daughter of Edward 

 the Fourth, and widow of John, Lord Welles, is 



* [Vols. XV. and xvi., consisting of Letters to and 

 from Archbishop Ussher, were published early in 

 1849.] 



