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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[294 S. Ne 9., Mar. 1. 56. 
songs, was an inseparable companion of Mr. Clap- 
perton; and for a long series of years, these gen- 
tlemen, and others musically inclined, used to meet 
and have concerts in each other’s houses. Al- 
though possessed of an excellent and respectable 
business as a writer to the Signet, Mr. Clapperton 
left no fortune behind him. The support and 
education of a very large family, of whom, as 
before noticed, only five survived him, prevented 
his accumulating money. J. M. (2.) 
Albert Durer’s Picture of Melancholy (2° S. 
i. 12. 101.) — With a view of assisting your corre- 
spondent G. F., in his endeavours to comprehend 
that strange picture, Albert Durer’s Melancholy, 
and drawing attention to a somewhat interesting 
parallelism in Tennyson’s Palace of Art, I would 
suggest his reading one by the light of the other. 
Of course he will find there no key to the detail, 
but I think, on an attentive perusal of both, he 
will agree with me, that the same idea is intended 
to be conveyed. 
Indeed, all the concluding portion of the poem, 
commencing with — 
“ Full oft the riddle of the painful earth,” 
contains an exact description of the mystical 
figure, seated so despairingly at the foot of the 
tower —“ her lordly pleasure house.” (?) 
Query, Did Tennyson take the notion of his 
beautiful allegory from this remarkable picture ? 
If he did not, here is another of those singular 
coincidences of the same idea, finding utterance 
in widely different times; and genius, though 
differing in mode of speech, enunciating to the 
world, each in its own way, that — 
ie 5 S : : Not for this 
Was common clay ta’en from the common earth, 
Moulded by God, and temper’d with the tears 
Of angels to the perfect shape of man.” 
I will not occupy your valuable space by say- 
ing anything on the subject of the emblems; but 
if any of your correspondents could help me to 
the meaning of the square of figures against the 
side of the tower, I should be very much obliged 
to him. TeV Ps 
Bristol. 
Song on Tobacco (24 S, i. 115.)—One of your 
correspondents, the other day, wrote all the way 
from Malta to say that the word tobacco, originally 
applied to the pipe and not to the weed. This had 
been previously stated in 1% S. x. 24. In the 
same place will be found, I think, an answer to 
J.B. The line he quotes seems to be merely a 
variation of one of the lines of the Rev. R. Erskine, 
to be found at the end of his Gospel Sonnets. 
While upon the subject, allow me to add the 
following notes relating to its literature. I have 
the titles only of a book called A Paper of To- 
bacco, another A History of Tobacco, and a third, 
by Fr. Tiedemann, Geschichte des Tabaks. This 
last is just published, and contains eighteen illus- 
trations. I also remember to have seen an article 
in favour of tobacco in a Spanish miscellany, but 
omitted to make a note of it. And there are 
several pieces in rhyme on the same subject in 
the London Magazine for 1735. To these I may 
add, an article in one of the early volumes of the 
Penny Magazine for 1835, pp. 349—351. 
B. H. C. 
In the old MS. common-place book, mentioned 
in 1* §, xi. 23., the following version of the song 
is given : 
“ The Indian weede that’s withered quite, 
Greene at morne, cut downe at night, 
Showes that like it we must decay, 
Thus think ye when ye smoke tobacco. 
“ The pipe, that is so lylly white, 
Shews thou art a mortall wight; 
Even such breaks with a touch. 
Thus think ye, &c. 
“ And when the pipe is foule within, 
Think of thy soule defil’d with sin ; 
And then the fire it doth require. 
Thus think ye, &c. 
“ And then the ashes left behind, 
May serve to put thee still in mind, 
That unto dust returne thou must, 
Thus think ye, &c.” 
T. Q. C. 
Tobacco (2"4 S. i. 53.) — The Island of Tobago 
was first so called by Columbus, who gave it that 
name from ¢obacco, the pipe which the aborigines, 
to the surprise of the Spanish, smoked. 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Mason’s “ History of St. Patrick's Cathedral” 
(2™S. i. 96.) —This work was originally published 
in 1819, under the title of Hibernia, Part I. ; con- 
taining only 444 pages, exclusive of the Appen- 
dix. It is probably this which your correspon- 
dent Apusa has heard spoken of as an imperfect 
edition. Perhaps some other correspondent will 
be kind enough to say, whether there be any 
means of obtaining the deficient thirty-four pages. 
I should fear not. EK. H. D. D. 
Kentish Fire (1* §S. vii. 155.) — In reply to this 
long-standing Query, I beg to inform Rosa that 
when the Earl of Winchelsea, about the year 
1834, attended a very great meeting in Dublin of 
Protestants, who met to consider the then political 
state in which the kingdom was placed, the par- 
ticular mode of expressing great applause, called, 
in honour of the earl, the “ Kentish Fire,” was in- 
vented, Yatosii 
Dublin. 
Priests’ Hiding-places (1" S. xii. 14., &e.) —At 
Watcomb, Berks, in what was once the manor- 
house, but now a farmstead, may be found one of 
such nooks, the entrance to which is by uplifting 
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