2»iS. VI. 155., Dec. 18. '58.] NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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There is no connexion in this etymology with the 

 Greek name Moses (Mwvani, LXX.), pronounced 

 by Spanish Jews Mu-ske, and by German, more 

 correctly, Mow-she, for the legislator's name is 

 not a Hebrew one, but an Egyptian compound, 

 in Coptic mo, water, and ouje, to save, meaning 

 " saved out of the water," in allusion to his rescue 

 from infanticide. T. J. Bcckton. 



Lichfield. 



Irish Yam (2-'J S. vi. 432.)— The extract ap- 

 pears to be imperfectly quoted from L. Roberts' 

 Treasure of Traffiche, London, 1641, p. 32. I 

 venture to ask you to give it at somewhat greater 

 length. It is of much interest, as the earliest 

 known notice of the cotton manufacture in Lan- 

 cashire. It is true that so early as Leland's time 

 fabrics called " Cottons " were largely manufac- 

 tured in this district ; but the materials were 

 linen yarn for warps, and woollen yarn for weft. 

 It is supposed that the name " cotton" was a cor- 

 ruption of " coating." 



" The town of Blanchester, in Lancashire, must be also 

 herein remembered, and worthilj' for their encouragement 

 commended, who buy the yarne of the Irish in great 

 quantity, and, weaving it, returne the same againe into 

 Ireland to sell. Neither doth their industry rest here ; 

 for they buy Cotton Wool in London that comes first 

 from Cyprus and Smyrna ; and at home worke the same, 

 and perfect it into fustains, verraillions, dimities, and 

 other such stuffes, and then return it to London, where 

 the same is vented and sold, and not seldom sent into for- 

 rain parts, who have means, at far easier termes, to pro- 

 vide themselves of the said first materials." 



Linen warps, spun in Ireland, were used with 

 cotton weft in the manufacture of fustian until 

 1773, when they were superseded by Sir Richard 

 Arkwright's water-twist ya»n. 



G11.BEET J. French. 



Bolton. 



Lynch (2°* S. vi. 278.) — Allusion lias been made 

 to a Lynch-pin, as elucidating the derivation of 

 this word. This word is doubtless derived from 

 the Anglo-Saxon lynis, an axle-tree, and means 

 the axle-pin. Is lynch, then, a blow or jolt, to 

 which of course the axle-trees of carts, &c., are 

 continually subject ? A, A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Musical Instrument : Celestina (2'"' S. vi. 457.) 

 — The musical instrument alluded to by Sty- 

 UTEs was introduced by Walker at the ex- 

 hibitions of his transparent orrery ; and I think 

 he was its inventor. Whether the secret died 

 with him, I do not know ; but though I well re- 

 member hearing it as an accompaniment to his 

 orrery, I never heard of it afterwards. It was 

 well named The Celestina, for its sounds were 

 unlike any earthly music, and quite a sublime ac- 

 companiment to the movements of the celestial 

 orbs revolving in his transparencies. There was 

 no sound as of wire, nor did it seem like a wind 



instrument : yet I cannot think it was glass. It 

 might, however, have been some ingenious adap- 

 tation of musical glasses. F. C. H. 



Stylites is perfectly right as to the name of 

 the instrument he describes, but wrong in sup- 

 posing the sounds to have been produced from 

 glass. I remember, when a young man, frequently 

 to have accompanied a lecturer dui'ing his lecture 

 upon " the Celestina," then a novelty. It was sim- 

 ply an old harpsichord, wherein had been inserted 

 a well-resined thick horse-hair, which by leverage 

 from the action of the key-board was pressed 

 upon the wires, and by a sort of small lathe, used 

 as a pedal, caused the vibratory sound, which was 

 most pleasing to the ear, and could be retained 

 similarly to the tone of an organ. If I mistake 

 not, it was the invention of a well-known piano- 

 forte maker named Mott, whose descendants, I 

 believe, are now pianoforte makers, &c., 76. Strand. 



j; w. H. 



St. Blabis Chapel (2°* S. vi. 283.) —A paper 

 on the ruins of this chapel was read by J. T. Ro- 

 chead, Esq., Architect (Session 1857-8), to the 

 Glasgow Archaeological Association. The pro- 

 ceedings of the Society are to be published soon, 

 where no doubt this paper will find a place. The 

 Glasgow Herald generally published the proceed- 

 ings of the Society. If Mr. Pattison will examine 

 a file of this paper for the three last months of 

 1857 and three first of 1858, he may get a visee 

 of the paper in question. S. Wmson. 



notes on books, etc. 



From the very nature of the subject, works on Arclii- 

 ture, requiring, as they generally do, large and numerous 

 illustrations, are themselves for the most part large and 

 expensive. One marked exception to this law has, how- 

 ever, just appeared in the Second Edition of Mr. Fer- 

 guson's Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, being a 

 Concise and Popular Account of the Differetit Styles of 

 Architecture prevailing in all Ages and all Countries. The 

 promises held out in the title of Mr. Ferguson's book are 

 fulfilled in a handsome octavo volume of rather more than 

 a thousand pages. The author considers his subject under 

 the two obvious divisions of Non-Christian and Christian 

 Art. The former is treated of in nine books, which are 

 respectively devoted to — I. Buddhist and Jaina Archi- 

 tecture; II. Hindu Architecture; III. Architecture in 

 China and America; IV. Architecture in Western Asia ; 

 V. Egyptian Architecture; VI. Grecian Architecture; 

 VII. Roman Architecture ; VIII. Sassanian Architecture; 

 and lastly, IX. Saracenic Architecture. The Second Part 

 which treats of Christian Ai-chitecture, is divided into ten 

 books, viz. I. llomanesque Style ; II. Lombard and Khe- 

 nish Architecture; III. Gothic Architecture in France; 

 IV. Gol»hic Architecture in Belgium ; V. Gothic Archi- 

 tecture in Germany; VI. Gothic Architecture in Italy; 

 VII. Gothic Style in Spain and Portugal ; VIII. Gothic 

 Architecture in Great Britain ; IX. Gothic Architecture 

 in Northern Europe ; .and lastly, X. Byzantine Style. In 

 this way Mr. Ferguson has contrived to supply a sue- 



