Dec. 27. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ruins. Tlie work is not a scarce one in good 

 libraries : I shall therefore be concise in the ex- 

 tracts from it. The article entitled " ^gina 

 (Greece)" states that the remains of the Temple i 

 of Jupiter Panhellenius (which are engraved in | 

 the Ionian. Antiquities) prove it to have been of i 

 the Doric order ; that it had six columns in front, j 

 but only twelve on the side, in opposition to the 

 usual custom among Greek architects of adding 

 one column more than double the number of those 

 in front. The architecture is said closely to ap- 

 pi-oach that of the hexastyle hypiEthral Temple of 

 Passtum. Williams, in his Travels, expresses the 

 opinion that this Temple of Jupiter is older than 

 that of Tiieseus or the Parthenon. In Dodwell's 

 Greece, too, there is an ample description of it. 

 He represents it to have been jiart of the ruins of 

 an ancient city, perhaps of Oie. Twenty-five 

 columns were left entire in his day ; together with 

 the greater part of the epistylion, or architrave. 

 The cornice, however, with the metopse and tri- 

 glvphs, have all fallen. The view of this gloriously 

 positioned temple must have been magnificent 

 from the sea; wiiile the details of the building 

 must have been equally delighting to the near 

 spectator. The temple was built of soft porous 

 stone, coated with a thin stucco, which must have 

 given it a marble appearance. The epistylia were 

 painted, and the cornice elegantly ornamented in 

 a similar manner. The pavement was also covered 

 with a thick stucco, painted vermilion. Chandler 

 (^Greece, 12-15.) describes traces of the peribolus 

 of this temple ; and Clarke styles it at once the 

 most ancient and remarkable in Greece. I may 

 add that the zEginetans were celebrated for their 

 works in bronze, for fine medals (the art of coining 

 money indeed being first introduced by the in- 

 habitants of this island), for their terra cotta vases, 

 &c. Fosbroke's excellent Cijclapmdia of Anti- 

 quities may be with advantage consulted in respect 

 to tlie Eginetic school of art. J. J. S. 



The Cloi!>ters, Temple. 



Herschel Anticipated (Vol. iv., p. 23.3.). — I can- 

 not inform iEoRoxus who was declared to be mad 

 for believing the sun's motion, but Herschel was 

 anticipated by Lalande {Memoires, 1776), who 

 inferred it from the sun's rotation ; also by Pro- 

 fessor AV'ilson, of Glasgow {Thoii<^hls on Universal 

 Gravitation, 1777), and, earlier than these, by the 

 Kev. Mr. Micheil, in Philosophical Transactions, 

 1767. M:iy er (Dc 3Iotu Fixu7-nm, 1760) mentions 

 the hypothesis, and rejects it. Altkon. 



Wyle Cop (Vol. iv., pp. 116. 243.).— Cop is not 

 a hill or head, as Mr. Lawrence 8U[)poses, and as 

 the word certainly signifies in some parts of 

 England, but a /;««/(. i'iie artificial banks which 

 confine the Dee at and below Chester were called 

 fifty years ago, and I dare say are still called. 

 Cups, with distinctive named. By Salopian's 



account, Wyle Cop is such a bank. I cannot ex- 

 plain Wyle, but think it probable that it was the 

 name of some former proprietor of the ground. It 

 however no more needs explanation than if it were 

 joined to Street or Lane, instead of to Cop. 



E. H.D.D. 



Macfarlane Manuscripts (Vol. iv., p. 406.). — 

 In reply to your correspondent ANXiau.VRiENSis, 

 I have to inform you that the " Macfarlane Col- 

 lections" preserved in the Advocates' Library, 

 Edinburgh, are chiefly of an "ecclesiastic nature." 

 In Turnbull's Fragnienta Scoto- JMonastica, pub- 

 lished by Stevenson of Edinburgh, 1842, I find 

 it stated that — 



" Mr. Walter Macfarlan of Macfarlan ( Scotice, of 

 that Ilk) was an eminent antiquary, who devoted liis 

 attention strictly to the historical monuments of his 

 own country, especially the ecclesiastic remains. He 

 caused to be made, at his own expense, by his clerk, 

 one Tait, copies of most of the cliartularies accessible 

 in his time. These are distinguished for their fidelity 

 and neatness. Mr. Macfarlan died 5th ,Iune, 17G7, 

 and liis MSS. were purchased by the Faculty of Ad- 

 vocates. " 



Of these valuable and highly important char- 

 tularies there has been printed, 1. Aberdeen; 

 2. Arbroath; 3. Balmerino; 4. Dryburgh ; 5. Dun- 

 fermline; 6. Kelso; 7. Lindores; 8. Melros ; 

 9. Moray; 10. St. Andrews; and 11. Scone. 



According to Douglas, in his Baronage of Scot- 

 land, folio, 1798 — 



" Mr. Macfarlane was a man of parts, learning, and 

 knowledge, a most ingenious anti(iuary, and by far the 



i best genealogist of his time. He was possessed of the 

 most valuable collection of materials for a work of 



' this kind of any man in the kingdom, which he col- 

 lected with great judgment, and at a cmsiderable ex- 

 pense, and to which we always had, and still have, free 

 access. This sufficiently appears by tlie many quota- 

 tions from Macfarlane's collections, both in the Peerage 

 and Baronage of Scotland. In sliort, he was a man of 



; great benevolence, an agreeable companion, and a 



I sincere friend. 



" He married Lady Elizabeth Ersklne, daughter of 

 Alexander, sixth earl of Kelly, and died witliout issue 

 in June, 1767." 



In tlie year 1846 there was engraved, at the 

 expense of VV. B. C. C. Tiirnbull, Esq., advocate, 

 a fine portrait of JMacfarhine, from the original 

 painting in the Library of the Society of Scottish 

 Antitpiaiies. Of this plate it is believed that only 

 a few " proofs upon India paper " were thrown off 

 for presents. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



iHiSrcUaiicnitS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



When Heminge and Coiidell put forth the first folio 

 of iiliakspeare in 1623, as if with a fine prescience of 



