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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<« S. VI. 134., JtjLT 24. '68. 



On the eastern coast of Africa, the ancients had, 

 from an early period, navigated the Red Sea, and 

 had made considerable progress along the southern 

 coast of Asia. Herodotus indeed informs us that 

 Darius (521 — 485 b.c.) hearing that the Indus, as 

 well as the Nile, contained crocodiles *, wished to 

 ascertain where that river joined the sea. He ac- 

 cordingly sent Scylax of Caryanda, and other per- 

 sons whom he could trust, to ascertain the truth. 

 They started from the city of Caspatyrus and the 

 land of Pactya, and sailed down the Indus to the 

 east, until they reached the sea. They then sailed 

 by sea to the west, and in the thirtieth month 

 reached the point from which Neco had sent the 

 Phoenicians to circumnavigate Africa. After this 

 voyage, adds Herodotus, Darius subdued the In- 

 dians, and navigated the intermediate sea (iv. 44. 

 Compare iii. 101.). 



The Scylax of Caryanda, here mentioned by 

 Herodotus, is cited by Aristotle and other writers 

 as having left a work containing geographical and 

 ethnographical notices of India ; but the account 

 of his voyage down the Indus, and from the mouth 

 of the Indus to the Persian Gulf, is discredited by 

 Dr. Vincent, on grounds which deserve attentive 

 consideration, and which are regarded as conclu- 

 sive by C. Miiller, in his recent edition of the 

 Minor Greek Geographers. (Commerce and Navi- 

 gation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, vol. i. 

 pp. 303-311. ; vol. ii. pp. 13-15., ed. 1807 ; Geogr. 

 Or. Min., vol. i., Prol. p. xxxv.) G. C. Lewis. 



{To be concluded in our next.') 



MATERIALS FOR A NEW EDITION OP STKYPE. 



[Our readers will we are sure be as glad as we are, to 

 see that, although Dr. Maitland's interesting Pamphlet 

 on the subject of a new and revised edition of Strype's 

 Works was but privately printed, it has had the effect of 

 drawing general attention to the subject. How pleased 

 we should be to hear that the Delegates of the Clarendon 

 Press — or if they decline it, some eminent publishing 

 firm, — had taken the matter in hand. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 



As Dh. Maitland has again called attention to 

 the value of Strype's works, and has urged the 

 necessity of a thorough revision and illustration 

 of the text, it may not be out of place to make a 

 beginning, by bringing together references to con- 

 tributions which have been already made to this 

 national undertaking. Hoping that the readers 

 of " N. & Q." may supply my deficiencies, I sub- 

 mit my scanty gleanings to their judgment. See 

 Machyn's Diary (Camd. Soc.) ; Dr. Maitl;.nd's 



* Alexander the Great, finding that there were crocodiles 

 in the Indus, and that a bean grew on the banks of the 

 Acesines, which fell into the Indus, similar to the Egyp- 

 tian bean, concluded that the Indus and the Nile were 

 the same river ; and wrote word to his mother Olym- 

 pias that he had discovered the sources of the Nile. — 

 Arrian, Anab. vi. 1. 



Essays on the Reformation, Letters on the Eccles. 

 Hist. Soc. Edition of Strype's Cranmer, and other 

 papers in the British Magazine ; Strype's Parker, 

 Cheke, and Aylmer, with Thomas Baker's notes 

 (very numerous and important on the Life of 

 Parker), in the library of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge ; publications of the Parker Society ; 

 Archbp. Laurence's Bampton Lectures (ed. 1820), 

 pp. 200. 225. seq. ; Gent. Mug., July, Aug., Dec, 

 1833 (pp. 16. 124. 492. 494.) ; British Magazine, 

 vol. xxii. pp. 3. seq., 140. 380., vol. xxiv. pp. 482. 

 486. ; Waterland's Letters to Lewis (in Water- 

 land's Works). On ih& Life of Parker, see " N. 

 & Q." 2"'» S. ii. 266. ; on Wharton's notes in the 

 Life of Cranmer, D'Oyly's Life of Sancroft (1st 

 ed.), vol. ii. p. 151. For letters and other papers 

 relating to Strype, see beside the Catalogues of 

 the great Collections of MSS., Sir Henry Ellis's 

 Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Thoresby's Cor- 

 respondence, ii. 272., and often. Letters from the 

 Bodleian, ii. Al.seq. A great mass of Strype's cor- 

 respondence is preserved at Milton, Cambridge- 

 shire, which may perhaps deserve the attention 

 of the Camden or some of our other publishing 

 societies. Sir E. Brydges {Restituta, iii. 538., iv. 

 261.) may also be consulted. J. E. B. Mayor. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Stri/pe : the Cranmer Register. — I see, by a 

 notice in the Athenaeum, that Dr. Maitland is 

 again calling attention to the want of accuracy in 

 Strype's quotations from Archbishop Cranmer's 

 Register ; and I, for one, shall rejoice if Dr. Mait- 

 land, following the suggestion of the reviewer of 

 his " Notes," should be himself induced to under- 

 take the revision of Strype for a new edition. 



But is there any reason why the Register itself 

 cannot be printed in extenso ? or, if too long for 

 publication, at least such parts of it as are of 

 special interest ? However, it seems hardly con- 

 ceivable that any of the items in such a document, 

 extending over so stirring a period, should be 

 wanting in general interest. J. Sansom. 



It is exceedingly vexatious to read in a late num- 

 ber (2""^ S. V. 448.) that space cannot be spared 

 in your pages for Dr. Maitland's Notes and 

 Queries on the works of our great antiquary 

 the Rev. J. Strype, whose antiquarian researches 

 are invaluable and of high authority. The inde- 

 fatigable, learned, and judicious Dr. Maitland 

 has thrown additional light upon the transactions 

 noted by Mr. Strype; and surely they must not be 

 hid in a private publication. Cannot you spread 

 them over a few pages of " N.& Q.," so that nothing 

 shall be lost ? The number of ecclesiastical students 

 who are diligently inquiring into the great and 

 important changes which took place in our eccle- 

 siastical aflfairs from the reign of Henry VIII. to 



