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[2'"i S. VI. 140., Sept. 4. '68, 



Scotic rule had been long established in North 

 Britain. SeduHus is the Latinised form of the 

 well-known Irish name " Shiel," the " d " or mid- 

 dle consonant being elided. C. 



Cold Harbour or Arbour (2"'i S. vi. 143.) — 

 The probability seems manifest, that the places 

 which bear this appellation were anciently con- 

 nected with the Roman occupancy of this island ; 

 but how were they connected with it ? I am in- 

 clined to think that the name marks the site of 

 lands that were allotted to colonists who made 

 permanent settlements on them, and cultivated 

 the soil. Such lands may have been known as 

 " Colonorum arva," the fields of the husbandmen 

 or colonists ; and it is not improbable, I think, 

 that colloquially the abbreviation, " Col. arva," 

 may have been in use. At this moment I cannot 

 adduce any readings of " Col." for " Colonorum," 

 on votive or sepulchral monuments ; but any one 

 who has given the least attention to Roman in- 

 scriptions must have remarked the custom of ab- 

 breviating the words in common use. The Anglo- 

 Saxon colonists, in occupying the land of their 

 predecessors, may have retained the sound of the 

 name by which those lands were called, and that 

 sound would be very like " Cold Arbour." If any 

 one will repeat " Col. arva" several times over, 

 he will perceive what a striking similarity there is 

 in the sound of those words. W. S. 



Cha, Tea (2"'^ S. v. 275. 347.) — In all the 

 European languages the same word is used for 

 tea, or identically almost the same; e.g. French, 

 the; Italian, te ; Spanish, te; German, ihee; Dutch, 

 thee; and Russian, ishai ; in all of these it is a 

 masculine noun, except in the Dutch, where it is 

 feminine, while in English it is neuter. In the 

 tongues of the East it is invariably of the feminine 

 gender, and the Chinese tcha, or iha, is represented 

 in India by the word \^_, chd, which is of Persian 



derivation. Thus these two words appear to re- 

 present the name of this most useful product all 

 over the world, no doubt originally derived from 

 the language of the country where its habitat was. 

 In some Latin dictionaries, Ainsworth, &c., ihea 

 is given, though for what purpose it would be 

 difficult to say, as it can hardly be considered a 

 classical term, or a ^ord known to the Romans ! 



A. S. A. 

 Hmdustkn, June, 1858. 



"Salutation and Cat" (2°'i S. vl. 137.) — It Is 

 far from improbable but some explanation of the 

 sign of the " Salutation and Cat " may yet be 

 brought to light, and a more significant derivative 

 than the one suggested by your correspondent 

 Alexander Andrews. 



If, indeed, "we have never heard of any tavern 

 called the 'Cat' as a sign," it must be borne in 

 mind we have the equally cui'ious combination of 



the " Cat and Fiddle," and which is by no means 

 uncommon ; this latter is, however, satisfactorily 

 explained, and probably is in fact a corruption of 

 " Catherine fidele." The Jesuits have long been 

 satirised under the semblance of a cat ; but never 

 more thoroughly than in France, under the reign 

 of Charles X., who lost his throne battling with 

 that imagery. The legend of the " Cats " is fami- 

 liar in Louvain, and appears full of meaning ; but 

 there is no point, or sufficient catastrophe, to make 

 it palatable to the present taste : the mysterious 

 noises in the air — the banquet on the Grand 

 Place — the salutation of the young cats — the in- 

 sinuating invitation to partake of their feast — 

 and the final dislodgraent from the chateau — are 

 all events typical of Jesuitical attributes. 



It is possible Bellenden Ker, who traces in his 

 volumes the origin of many of our songs, sayings, 

 and signs of a certain period to events passing in 

 the Low Countries, may have coupled this sign 

 with some spirit-stirring scene connected with the 

 Reformation. H. D'Aveney. 



Paintings of Christ hearing the Cross (2"* S. v. 

 378.424. 505.; vi. 57. 157.) — Add, one in the 

 church of St. Ambroise, Paris (French school) ; 

 and one by Titian, in the Palazzo Durazzo, Genoa. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Postman and Tubman (2"* S. vi. 168.) — Le- 

 GALis will find two of the three questions he asks 

 answered by a reference to " N. & Q." 1" S. v. 

 490. Tee Bee, 



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