and S, No 4., Jan, 26. °56.] 
rights where buildings are contiguous, or have 
outlets on the property of the other; and those 
determining the rights of soil in the several ways 
and passages. 
In fact, it is evident, that, if the lawyers of the 
two Inns, in the reign of George II., had not felt 
a little perplexity with respect to the patent which 
their predecessors had somewhat improvidently 
obtained‘from James I., granting the two Temples 
to the benchers of both, not separately but jointly, 
the deed of 1732 would, in all probability, never 
have been executed. 
Notwithstanding, therefore, this authorised pub- 
lication of the Report and Evidence, I fear that 
the solution of the verate questiones, whether the 
lawyers were originally established in the Temple 
in one or in two Societies, and, if in one, at what 
period the division took place, remains as doubtful 
as before. Let us hope, however, that some of 
the present able investigators of our records may 
in their researches discover some clue to guide us 
to the truth. Epwarp Foss. 
NAHUM TATE. 
Having lately chanced to meet with the fol- 
lowing spirited verses by Mr. Tate, prefixed to 
Ovington’s Voyage to Surat, printed in 1696, I 
thought they deserved to be rescued from the 
oblivion which has in all probability overtaken 
them, and would agreeably surprise many of the 
readers of “ N. & Q.,” whose opinion of Tate, from 
his share in the version of the Psalms, must be far 
from flattering. The original orthography is pre- 
served. J.M. 
“To Mr. J. Ovington, on his Voyage to Suratt. 
“ Hard is our Task to Read with fruitless Pain, 
The Dreams of ev’ry Cloyster’d Writer’s Brain: 
Who yet presume that Truth’s firm Paths they tread, 
When all the while through wild Utopias led, 
With Faiery-Feasts, instead of Science fed. 
As dreaming Wizzards Midnight Journeys take, 
And weary with imagin’d Labour wake, 
So vain is Speculation’s fancy’d Flight : 
But search of Nature gives Sincere Delight. 
Through her vast Book, the World, a Curious Eye 
May Wonders in Each pregnant Page descry, 
Make new Remarks, which Reason may reduce 
To Humane Benefit, and Publick Use. 
Then Happy they who quit their private Home, 
And gen’rously through Foreign Climates roam ; 
Who, like Ulysses, can despise the Toil : 
And make each Land they meet their Native Soil. 
See Men and Manners scarce by Rumour known, 
Visit all Countreys to improve their own. 
But ah! how few, my Friend, with your Design, 
On such Discov’ries bound, have cross’d the Line! 
For sordid Gain, new Worlds they will desery, 
Seize Nature’s Wealth, but pass her Wonders by. 
Their Fleet returns opprest with ‘lraflick’s Weight, 
But Knowledge makes no part of all the Freight. 
Yet this, of Old, was Jason’s Noble Prize; 
*Twas this that plac’d his Argo in the Skies: 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
67 
Experience was the far-fetcht Golden Fleece, 
The Prize so much admir’d by Ancient Greece, 
From whence may be inferr’d what Thanks are due 
From Britain’s Sons, Industrious Friend, to you. 
Fame shall in State your useful Book Install 
In Bodley’s Pile, the Muses’ Capitol. 
You have so lively your Discoveries Writ, 
We Read and Voyage with you as we sit ; 
With you hoise Sail and reach the Indian shore; 
The real Scene cou’d scarce delight us more. 
As when some Prophet from a Trance awakes, 4 
And to attentive Crowds Description makes 
Of Wonders, which he did in Rapture view, 
The Listners think they see the Vision too. 
Thus, Entertain’d with Nature and with Art, 
We hear your Trayels told, and well-pleas’d Guests 
depart. IN, Ame 
A CAUTION TO ANTIQUARIES. 
“On the summit of Tory Hill, called in Irish Sleibth 
Grian, or the Hill of the Sun, is a circular space covered 
with stones; the larger ones have been taken out and 
rolled down the hill for the use of the country people; 
there is still one large one near the centre, and there is 
an appearance of smaller ones having stood in a circle 
at a little distance from the heap, which is above sfxty- 
five yards in circumference: within which, on the east 
side, zs a stone raised on two or three unequal ones, with 
this inscription, facing the west and centre of the heap: 
leLt ClUOD 5S 
The letters are deeply and well cut, on a hard block of 
silicious breccia. They are two inches high. Between 
each is a space of about one inch, and a distance between 
the words of three inches. In Roman letters they would 
be, — 
BELI DIUOSE. 
The first letter is one of the most simple forms of the 
Pelasgic B*, which was also written 8, and in cutting 
upon a hard stone the fine strokes may have been omit- 
ted: the others are well known. 
“That the Divinity was worshipped in this country 
under the name of Ber needs no proof. That the Di- 
vinity was worshipped in the British Isles under the 
name of Dronusos is also recorded. That worship is 
beautifully described by Dionysius, the geographer (v. 
570.), who says, that in the Western Isles the wives of 
the illustrious Ammonians (or Amnite) celebrated the 
worship of Dionusos with as great fervour as the Thra- 
cians. 
“The stone on which this inscription is cut is five feet 
one inch long; at the back six feet five inches; it is 
five feet broad, and one foot four inches thick. In front 
appears to have been a sunk place, flagged, but it is im- 
perfect. The common people pay some respect to this 
relic.” 
The foregoing remarks are taken from A Survey 
of the County Kilkenny, published in 1800, and 
written by W. Tighe, Esq., of Woodstock, near 
Inistigge, in the said county. 
The hill alluded to is about five miles N.W. 
of the city of Waterford. For many years sub- 
sequent to the above date, no suspicion was 
entertained but that the inscription in question 
was other than what perhaps the industrious exa- 
* See alphabet in Remains of Japhet. 
