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bath of gold. Fine proofs may also be obtained by sensi- 
tising as above, and then, after an exposure of only a few 
seconds, developing in a solution of gallic acid. 
When the requisite strength is arrived at, it is to be 
fixed in the acid bath to fix it, and then toned, washed, 
&c. as before. 
The proof I enclose is a sample of this mode of print- 
ing; and it is not waxed, in order to show you the na- 
ture of the process more perfectly, and to offer facility to 
the testing of the picture as to fixity, if you may desire. 
F. MAxweE.u Lyre. 
Maison Ramonet, Bagnéres de Bigorre, 
April 27th, 1856. 
Replies to Minor Queries. 
Papin (2™ S. i. 303.) —I may remind your 
correspondent that Papin was a learned French- 
man who lived for many years at the Court of 
Cassel, and was a friend and correspondent of 
Leibnitz. He not only invented the steam en- 
gine, but the steam boat. His engines, with which 
he moved his vessel up the Fulda and Werra into 
the Weser, were broken by the jealous boatmen 
of the latter river. I have seen his application to 
the magistrates of Minden for redress, which he 
could not get ; and his letters on scientific subjects 
to Leibnitz are still in Hanover. Among them is 
a plan for raising water by a steam pump, in- 
tended to be applied to mining operations. A 
model of Papin’s engines is said to have existed 
at Cassel till the date of the French occupation, 
when it most mysteriously vanished. Papin’s 
boiler however is, I believe, still to be seen in that 
city. Professor Riihlmann, of Hanover, has lately 
published some very interesting details upon this 
subject. J. M. K. 
Keeping the Lord’s Hounds (2™ 8. i. 315.) is 
a service still retained on the borders of Scotland, 
and in the northern parts of England; it was also 
a right of the crown, and could of course, like all 
the rest, be matter of grant. In Anglo-Saxon 
charters nothing is more common than relief from 
this burthen, ab omni in commodo canum, et ac- 
cipitrum et a parafrithis, and the like. Vide Cod. 
Dipl. Avi Saxon. passim, and The Saxons in 
England, vol, ii., “ Rights of Royalty.” _ 
J. M. K. 
In the country hunted by Lord Fitzwilliam, 
it is the custom to quarter hounds upon the 
tenant-farmers; though I am not aware if the 
farmer is compelled to receive the hound by 
any clause in his lease. At one period I had 
rooms in a large farm-house in the Fitzwilliam 
country, where a young fox-hound was annually 
added to my landlord’s canine stock. As a 
delicate compliment to his noble owner, the 
hound was always called “ My-lord ;” and an in- 
tolerable nuisance “ My-lord” was, not only to 
every inmate of the house, but also to the callers 
and passers-by. Lord Fitzwilliam’s hounds are 
of a large and powerful breed, and “ My-lord” 
was quite big and strong enough to alarm (and 
to injure) any woman or child upon whom he 
sprang. Many a time have I heard a scream; 
and, on rushing out into the road, have found 
“My-lord” worrying a petticoat, or being fought 
off by a market-woman’s only weapons—her well- 
filled baskets. ‘“ My-lord” was an errant coward, 
and would slink away at the approach of a man ; 
and never (to my knowledge) attacked any one 
but children and unprotected females. ‘ My- 
lord” was also a great thief ; and, more than once, 
have I heard the cry of “Get out, My-lord!” 
accompanied with a sound as of the flying of 
brooms, mops, and other missiles; and, on looking 
out, I have seen “ My-lord” flying from the as- 
sault, with drooping stern and guilty look; and, 
in his thieving jaws, the chicken or partridge on 
which I was to have dined. 
Curueert Beps, B.A. 
Ancient Writers quoted by Camden (2™ S. i. 
313.) —“The ‘old riming poet’ who sings of 
Wales” is Walter Mapes, an ecelesiastic who 
flourished in the twelfth century, and was the 
author of several Latin poems. Both the passages 
referred to by your correspondent will be found 
in a poem attributed to Mapes, entitled Cambrie 
Epitome. The first, commencing with line 29 of 
the poem, and slightly differing from the lines as 
quoted, runs thus: 
“ Terra fectinda fructibus 
et carnibus et piscibus 
domesticis, silvestribus 
bobus, equis, et ovibus; 
apta cunctis seminibus,” &¢. 
The second begins at line 185. of the same 
poem: 
“ Mores brutales Britonum 
jam, ex convictu Saxonum, 
commutantur in melius, 
ut patet luce clarius. 
Hortos et agros excolunt ; 
ad oppida se conferunt ; 
et loricati equitant, 
et calceati peditant,” &c. 
The whole will be found in one of the early 
publications of the Camden Society, “ Latin Poems 
commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, collected 
and edited by Thomas Wright, 1841.” J. R. W. 
Bristol. 
Insecure Envelopes (2™ S. i. 292. 361.) — My 
inquiry was as to the possibility of obtaining the . 
“ metallic safety” envelopes; of their security I 
had no doubt. I made many experiments, and 
placed some in the hands of a very ingenious me- 
chanic, who, after a careful investigation, expressed 
his opinion that they could not be opened without 
such a fracture as would be obvious to the most 
careless. I had inquired at the shop mentioned 
