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is better, distilled water. Another sheet is then placed 
in the acetonitrate, and the first sheet strongly agitated 
in the water, and placed in another dish of distilled water. 
After taking the second sheet out of the aceto-nitrate, 
the first is removed from the water, passed between two 
sheets of blotting-paper, and placed upon the plate of the 
frame; the plate is then put into the frame, the edge of 
the paper being folded back so as to stretch it as much as 
possible. In a few seconds the paper has become very 
much stretched, and the surface very even. This method 
insures a high degree of finish, and prevents the paper 
contractimg by the heat. 
“ The paper thus prepared and placed in the frame can 
be kept for three days at least even in hot weather. I 
have obtained very beautiful pictures with paper that has 
been prepared fifteen days, and with a constant heat of 
from 86 to 95 degrees of Fahrenheit. 
“The solution of acetonitrate having been returned to 
the bottle, it is necessary to add ten grammes of animal 
charcoal, shake the bottle well, and allow it to rest until 
it is required again. 
“With a single lens of seven centimetres diameter, 
thirty-five centimetres of focal length, and a diaphragm 
of fifteen millimetres, I have obtained negatives in four 
minutes, under the conditions of the light in the east. 
“J develope with a solution of gallic acid, prepared 
immediately before using. 
of fresh acetonitrate. As soon as the ,picture has ap- 
peared I wash the paper, and then plunge it into a solution 
of hyposulphite of soda, of the following strength: 
Hyposulphite of soda - - 100 grammes, * 
Rain water - - - - 600 do. 
Half an hour’s immersion is sufficient : the picture is then 
taken out and left for twelve hours at least in water, 
which should be frequently changed.” 
Replies to Minar Queries. 
Fforse Talk (2"° 8. i. 335.) —It would be a 
yery curious inquiry, in a philological spirit, to 
extend this inquiry. A native of the West of 
England myself, I was struck by hearing the 
identical word of wog or woag, there used for the 
word of command to go to the right, prevailing 
in the same sense in several parts of Southern 
Germany. . 
Our Come hether, Come hether ho, is also nearly 
identical with Kum hum hier; our Wo, or rather 
Who, Whod, has scarcely any difference in in- 
tonation, none in meaning. The Southern German 
urges his horse to greater speed by the phrase 
Hip-Hep, with the usual accompaniment, and fre- 
quently adds the French word allez. 
I wonder whether your Scottish correspondent 
Mr. Sreruens ever heard in the west of Scotland 
a refractory steed called a d—d Tory? as I very 
well remember to have done more than once in 
Galloway (Wigtonshire). A. Mr. 
Has not Hexny Srernens confounded the terms 
addressed to horses with those addressed to oxen ? 
In some of the western counties, “haup up” is 
only applied to the latter, meaning to keep to the 
right. “Wag along,” “chope up,” and some 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
I filter it, and add afew drops | 
others which have escaped my recollection, are 
used exclusively to oxen: “gee up” and “com- \_ 
éather,” to horses. Db. 
Stubbins (2 S. i. 391.) —The incident oc- 
curred in Lob Lane, Oxford. John Stubbins, of 
Christ Church, proceeded D.D. June 22, 1630. 
Corbet had been dean of that college, and there 
probably became intimate with him. 
Mackernzis Watcorrt. 
Hengist and Horsa (2™ 8. i. 375.) — There is not 
the slightest ground for supposing that the “sign 
on the banner of Hengist and Horsa was a white 
horse ;” and as far as this goes, cadit questio. Hors- 
ley is no doubt whatever a territorial name, de- 
rived from a place, Horseley, A.-S. horsleat or 
horsa leat, the pasture-ground where the horses 
were kept. Of these there are still many, and in 
the Anglo-Saxon times, there must have been one 
attached to every village, and every manor. We 
really must have done with Hengist (the stallion) 
and Hors (the horse). And still more we must 
have done with the fantastic heraldry of the school 
of Randal Holmes, There is no reason to believe 
the Frisian heroes Hengist and Horsa to be a bit 
more genuine than Cadmus or Romulus; they 
merely adumbrate in the usual way the historical 
fuct that Kent was peopled by Frisian tribes. The 
banner and arms of Kent are a mere fiction de- 
rived at a very late period from the names them- 
selves. J.M.K. 
Running Footmen (2"2 §. i. 9., &e.) — Beckford, 
in his Letters from Italy (vol. i. p. 109.), writes 
from Piacenza: 
“Tt was from hence, in the spring of the year 1766, 
that I sent my running footman with a letter to Mantua: 
he could not have set out before six o’clock in the morn- 
ing, for till that time the gates were not open. The 
answer was dated Mantua, two o’clock at noon. I re- 
ceived it early the next morning before I was up, and he 
made many excuses for not returning the same day. It 
is wonderful what these fellows are capable of doing, but 
it is cruel to put it unnecessarily to the trial.” 
The distance between Piacenza and Mantua 
appears from the map to be exactly sixty miles as 
the crow flies, and the road by no means direct. 
J. F. M. 
Strachan of Craigcrook (2°4 S. i. 272.) —I 
regret that at present I am unable to give 
R. S. any great or full information “as to the 
family or pedigree of John Strachan of Craig- 
crook.” 
In Wood's History of Cramond will be found 
“Deeds of his Mortifications,” in which mention 
is made of the names and residences of various of 
his relations. These deeds are dated 1710 and 
1712, and duly recorded in 1719 and 1721. He 
was, by profession, a “writer to his Majesty’s 
signet,” and possessed of large real and personal 
