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story is outdone by the Kraken of Bishop Pontoppidan, which was an English 

 mile and a half in circumference. B. 



Page 44. // appears that dolphins love music. The story of Arion and his 

 dolphin is well known, and has several repetitions among the ancients. For 

 another delightful story see Oppian, v. 570-660 (Jones's translation). The seal is 

 also fond of music. B. 



Much Celtic legend has gathered about the seal's supposed love for music, and 

 the theme is a favourite one in Miss Fiona Macleod's beautiful Celtic romances. 

 It is treated with particular power and magic in the story entitled "The Dan-nan- 

 Ron," printed in The Sin-eater and other Stories. 



Page 44. the learned Dr. Casaubon' s " 'Discourse" Meric, son of Isaac 

 Casaubon, born at Geneva in 1 599, but educated at Oxford, was, for his great 

 learning, preferred to a prebend in the cathedral of Canterbury, and the rectory of 

 Ickham, near that city. Oliver Cromwell would have engaged him by a pension 

 of 300 a year to write the history of his time, but Casaubon refused it. Of 

 many books extant of his writing, that mentioned in the text is one, viz., " Of 

 Credulitie" etc., Lond., 1668, p. 143. He died in 1671, leaving behind him the 

 character of a religious man, loyal to his prince, exemplary in his life and conver- 

 sation, and very charitable to the poor. WOOD'S " At hen. Oxon." H. 



Page 44. John Tradescant. There were, it seems, three of the Tradescant^ 

 grandfather, father and son : the son is the person here meant. The two former 

 were gardeners to Queen Elizabeth, and the latter to King Charles the First. 

 They were all great botanists and collectors of natural and other curiosities, and 

 dwelt at South Lambeth in Surrey ; and, dying there, were buried in Lambeth 

 Churchyard. Mr. Ashmole contracted an acquaintance with the last of them, and 

 together with his wife, boarded at his house for a summer, during which Ashmole 

 agreed for the purchase of Tradescant's collection, and the same was conveyed to 

 him by a deed of gift from Tradescant and his wife. Tradescant soon after died, 

 and Ashmole was obliged to file a bill in Chancery for the delivery of the curio- 

 sities, and succeeded in his suit. Mrs. Tradescant, shortly after the pronouncing 

 the decree, was found drowned in her pond. This collection, with what additions 

 he afterwards made to it, Mr. Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford, and so 

 became the founder of the Ashmolean Museum. A monument for the three 

 Tradescants, very curiously ornamented with sculptures, is to be seen in Lambeth 

 Churchyard, and a representation thereof in four plates, and also some particulars 

 of the family, are given in the Philosophical Transactions^ vol. Ixiii. part I. p. 79, 

 et seq. The monument, by the contribution of some friends, to their memory was 

 in the year 1773, repaired; and the following lines, formerly intended for an 

 epitaph, inserted thereon : 



Know, stranger ! ere thou pass, beneath thlt stone 

 Lie John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son. 

 The last dy'd in his spring; the other two 



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