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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°4 S. IX. Mar. 31. 'GO. 



g&inav f2ota*. 

 Shakspeare Folio, 1623. — Many of your 

 readers probably look forward with a mixed feel- 

 in"' of glad anticipations and of diffidence to the 

 reprint which will ere long make its appearance. 

 We are anxious to get an easy access to the first 

 Folio, as to whose importance the Collier contro- 

 versy has added particularly. But at the same 

 time we cannot help feeling suspicious towards 

 any facsimile reprint. This newer one has to 

 thank its predecessor of 1807, in which Mr. Up- 

 cott and Mr. Porson detected several hundreds of 

 misprints, for its being submitted to a minute ex- 

 amination before it will meet with a general and 

 unreserved welcome. Can any of your readers 

 suggest where the above-named gentlemen de- 

 posited the results of the painstaking they be- 

 stowed on the facsimile reprint of 1807? Com- 

 parison, far from being " odorous," might facilitate 

 the task of critics. Z. B. 



[Mr. Upcott detected 368 typographical errors in the 

 reprints. See an article upon this subject, 1 st S. vii. p. 47., 

 by a correspondent who is in possession of Mr. Upcott'a 

 collation. We can scarcely entertain a doubt but that the 

 New Facsimile Edition announced for publication by Mr. 

 Booth will be correct and trustworthy. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 



Aphra Behn's Plays. — Those who consult 

 the Manual of Lowndes respecting the works of 

 this witty and licentious writer, will be surprised 

 to find that he mentions only the second and thi?-d 

 editions of her collected Plays, but takes no no- 

 tice of the first. His words are : — 



" 2nd Ed. Lond". 1716. 2 vols. 8vo. Portrait by Vander 

 Gucht. This edition contains 15 plavs, seven in vol. i. 

 and eight in vol. ii. Field, 110, date 1702— 1G. £1 0s. 



"Plays. London. 1724. 12mo. 4 vols, with portrait by 

 R. White. In this edition the prologues and epilogues are 

 omitted. Nassau, part 1. 230. £117s." 



I have the three editions now before me. The 

 first, printed in 1702, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. containing 

 fifteen plays (counting the two parts of the Rover 

 as one play) with the prologues and epilogues. 



The second edition, 2 vols., printed in 1716, of 

 the same size, and with the same contents, having 

 also the portrait as before mentioned. 



The third edition, printed in 1724, in 4 vols. 

 12mo., containing no prologues and epilogues, 

 but an additional play (The Younger Brother). 



It is quite clear, therefore, that Field's copy 

 was made up of two odd vols., one of the first, 

 and the other of the second edition, and not that 

 the volumes were printed at different times, : s 

 Lowndes would lead us to suppose. 



In the original 4to. editions is a play called 

 The Debauchee, 1677, which is not included in any 

 of the collected editions, but I have not seen.it. 



F. J. S. 



Number of the Beast. — Upon no passage of 

 Scripture, probably, has more ingenuity been dis- 

 played than in the attempt to interpret the num- 



ber of the beast. " And his number is six hundred 

 three score and six." It has been found in the 

 names of various popes, and Napoleon I.* was- 

 clearly indicated to the satisfaction of man)-. A 

 modern writer finds Mammon to be the beast, and 

 establishes his opinion by a quotation from 1 

 Kings x. 14, "Now the weight of gold that came 

 to Solomon in one year was six hundred three 

 score and six talents of gold." 



In an historical tract, 1646, entitled Querela 

 Cantabrigiensis, speaking of the Parliamentary 

 Covenant, the author thus expresses himself: — 



" This Covenant for which all this persecution has been, 

 consisted of six articles, and those articles of 666 words. 

 .... But as for the number of the Beast to answer directly 

 to the words of these six articles, it is a thing (which 

 considering God's blessed providence in any particular 

 thing) hath made many of us and others seriously and 

 often to reflect upon it, tho' we were never so supersti- 

 tionsly Caballisticall as to ascribe much to numbers. This 

 discovery, we confesse, was not made by any of us, but by 

 a very judicious and worth}' Divine formerly of our uni- 

 versity fM. Geast), and then a prisoner for his conscience 

 within the precincts of it." 



Nix. 



eauerietf. 



Duke of Kent's Canadian Residence. — An 

 officer of the 68th Regiment, who had been in the 

 household of the Duke of Kent, and who accom- 

 panied his corps to Fort George, Niagara, in the 

 autumn of 1820, writing from Quebec, 18th Oc- 

 tober in that year, mentions the view of the Falls 

 of Montmorenci as he passed up the St. Lawrence, 

 near Quebec. He adds : - — 



" My attention was particularly attracted by an elegant 

 little villa, near the Falls, which was formerly the coun- 

 try residence of the ever-to-be-lamented Duke of Kent, 

 when Governor-General of these Provinces." 



This occurs in an unpublished letter. Is the 

 villa mentioned in any book of Canadian travel or 

 geography ? What was its name ? And does it 

 remain, to attract the attention and gratify the 

 feelings of the Prince of Wales on his projected 

 visit to those provinces ? S. W. Rix. 



Geographical Queries — May I ask the fol- 

 lowing questions ? — 



Kief. — What reasons would be for, or against, 

 the selection of Kief as the capital of Russia ? 



Roman Roads. — What mechanical means had 

 the Romans for laying down a straight road from 

 one point to another in a country where the view 

 would be obstructed by forests, &c. ? i. e. did 

 they only draw a line at a venture in a certain 

 direction, and then produce it till it struck upon 

 some natural feature, or could they in a wild dis- 

 trict always connect two positions by a straight 

 line ? In one case the road would give existence 

 to the towns, in the other the main towns would 



[* See "N. & Q." 2"« S. i. 148. 276. 421.] 



