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bige behend hinein, und beisset und naget denn dieje- 
nigen Orte, allwo er sich anleget: welches gar grosse 
Ungelegenheit verursachet, und mehrmals gar den kopf 
recht wiiste machet.” 
I differ from Mr. Ketentiry with great re- 
spect ; for I know no one who has given more 
valuable information on so great a variety of sub- 
jects in so concise and readable a form. E.C. H. 
COUNT BORUWLASKEI. 
(2™ S, i. 154. 240.) 
The French Birmingham edition of 1792 
(penes) of the Memoirs of this celebrated mani- 
kin presents in an oval on the title-page a full- 
length representation of him (R. Hancock, Sct.) 
in a court dress, with this motto: 
“ Mysterious Nature who thy works shall scan, 
Behold in size a Child, in sense a Man.” 
*T have seen (says Dr. Adam Clarke, in his Commentary 
on the Bible, London, 1840,) and entertained in my house, 
the famous Polish dwarf, Count Boruwlaski, who was 
about thirty-six inches high, every part of whose person 
was formed with the most perfect and delicate symmetry. 
The prodigious height and bulk of Charles Burns (born 
in Ireland in the same township as the doctor), eight feet 
six inches high, and the astonishing diminutiveness of 
the count could not be properly estimated but by com- 
paring both together. Each was a perfect man, and yet 
im quantum how disproportionate. 
creature in whom the extremes of minuteness and mag- 
nitude are so apparent, and yet the proportion of the parts 
in each strictly correlative.” 
Seventy years ago, when the count visited Scot- 
land, he must have been beheld with a consider- 
able degree of curiosity, and during his sojourn of 
“some weeks” at Glasgow, where he was “ par- 
faitement bien recu,” would be abundantly stared 
at by the cotton manufacturers, with many droll 
remarks, of which there is now no information. 
To him the miseries of being short had equalled 
in another “ the miseries of being tall.” 
“Si” (bewails the count, p. 130.) “j’avais été formé & 
Vinstar des autres mortels, j’aurais pu, ainsi que tant 
@autres subsister par mon industrie et par mon travail; 
mais ma taille m’a exclus irrevocablement du cercle ordi- 
naire de la société; bien des gens méme paroissent ne me 
tenir aucun compte de ce que je suis homme, de ce que 
je suis honnéte homme, de ce que je suis homme sensible. 
Que ces reflexions sont dowloureuses Ir? 
It must ever be esteemed an honourable feature 
in the character of those “ prebendaries of Dur- 
ham” who gratuitously afforded him such com- 
fortable shelter for the remainder of his long 
spun-out existence. 
I have seen a number of individuals of both 
sexes, the period of whose life extended from 
ninety to upwards of one hundred years, and who 
were generally of a compact, thin, wiry structure, 
and in stature below the middle size. This spe- 
cies of formation seems that which confers the 
Man is the only. 
greatest stability and consequent longevity: the 
fact, so far as I am aware, has not been alluded to 
by any writer on the history of man. G. N. 
Boruwlaski is the correct spelling of the name, 
and the following is a copy of the inscription on 
the monument erected to his memory in Durham 
Cathedral : 
“Near this spot repose the remains of Count Joseph 
Boruwlaski, a native of Pokucia in the late kingdom of 
Poland. This extraordinary man measured no more than 
three feet three inches in height, but his form was well 
proportioned, and he possessed a more than common share 
of understanding and knowledge. After various changes 
of fortune, borne with cheerful resignation to the will of 
God, he closed his life in the vicinity of this cathedral, on 
the 5th of September, 1837, in the ninety-eighth year of 
his age.” 
Wm. Marruews. 
Cowgill. 
The particulars given in the Reply are very inter- 
esting, but is it true that the count was buried “near 
those of the late Mr. Stephen Kemble, in the nine 
altars in Durham Cathedral?” ‘There is, I know, 
a brass tablet to his memory let into the west 
wall of the church of 8. Mary the Less, Durham. 
Perhaps the rector, the Rev. James Raine, the 
eminent antiquary, would favour your readers 
with a copy of the inscription on the tablet. 
A. T. Ti 
SCRIPTURAL LEGENDS ON OUR ENGLISH COINS. 
(2™ S. i. 813.) 
It strikes me that the adoption of the legend 
referred to on the coins of any monarch, English 
or foreign, is not difficult to account for. The 
text is, “Jesus autem transiens per medium il- 
lorum ibat — But Jesus passing through the midst 
of them, went his way.” (St. Luke, iv. 30.) The_ 
circumstances in which this occurred sufficiently 
explain, to my mind, the rationale of the adoption. 
The enemies of our, Divine Redeemer had sought 
to destroy him, ¢o cast him down headlong ; but by 
his own divine power he escaped unhurt. The 
legend then implies a confidence in the divine 
power on the part of the monarch, to protect him 
against his enemies, who might seek to cast him 
down headlong from his throne and dominion. 
It ill became the author of Rambles round Not- 
tingham to sneer at the Vulgate, or “monkish 
versions” of the Scriptures. If he had examined 
the Vulgate he would not have found the holy 
name at the beginning of the text, but the Greek 
faithfully rendered, Ipse autem. The holy name 
of Jesus was substituted for the word Zpse on the 
coin, simply to render the text and its application 
intelligible. pal Oy 5 
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