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the nest, Terra Australis must be inhabited by a species of bird, little inferior to the condor of the Andes."-FLINders, vol. 1, p. 64.

[Skin of the Red Herring prevents Beer

from foaming or frothing.]

THE red herring." There is plain witchcraft in his skin," says T. NASHE," which is a secret that all tapsters will curse me for blabbing for do but rub a cann or quart pot round about the mouth with it, let the cunningest lick-spiggot swelt his heart out, the beer shall never foam or froth in the cup, whereby to deceive men of their measure, but be as settled as if it stood all night."-NASHE'S Lenten Stuff. Harl. Misc. vol. 2, p. 331.

[Rapacity of the Wolves at Caunpore.]

1785. "DURING a dreadful famine the people crowded for relief to the cantonment at Caunpore, and perishing for weakness before they could obtain it, filled up the ways with their dead bodies. This attracted the wolves, and being thus fleshed with human food, they considered the country as their own, and man as their proper prey. They not only frequently carried off children, but actually attacked the sentries on their post. Three of them attacked a sentinel, who after shooting the first and bayonetting the second, was killed by the third. It was necessary to double the sentries. A man, his wife, and child, were their hut, the mother was awakened by the sleeping in shrieks of the child in her arms, a wolf had seized it by the leg, and carried it off in

[Wesley's Use of the Verb " Nill."]

WESLEY uses the verb to nill, of which he felt the want, but he found it necessary to jured its effect. Speaking of the Christian, annex an explanation which very much inhe says, " He frequently finds his will more or less exalting itself against the will of God. He wills something, because it is pleasing to nature, which is not pleasing to God. And he nills (is averse from) something, because it is painful to nature, which is the will of God concerning him.” — Vol. 7, p. 189.

[The Windmills of Merida.]

THE fabulous Chronicle of K. Rodrigo,

describing Merida as it was before the time of the Moors, says "that upon every church there was a tower with a windmill upon it, flour."-P. 2, c. 156. so that the city might never be in want of

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[Oil to still the Waves.]

"HERE and there were to be seen stripes, or spots in the sea, which from their glittering appearance, and the little movement the water then had, were distinguishable at a very great distance. These spots proceeded from the fat and oily substances emitted by the whales in their breathing, or from their excrements, and shewed in a remarkable manner how little oil is necessary to spread to a great extent over the surface of the water. The idea, which I believe originated with Dr. Franklin,' that the waves, when violently agitated, might be stilled with oil, was probably borrowed from this circumstance."-LANGSDORFF, vol. 1, p. 80.

[Farther mention of Garlic as a Nostrum against the Simoom.]

IN Afghaunistaun "the people in places where the Simoom is frequent eat garlic, and rub their lips and noses with it when they go out in the heat of summer, to prevent their suffering by the Simoom. This wind is said to blast trees in its passage; and the hydrophobia, which affects the wolves, jackalls, and dogs in some parts of the country, is attributed to it."-ELPHINSTONE'S Account of Caubul, p. 140.

[Curious Effect of an Earthquake on the Pendulums of the Clocks in Batavia.] STAVORINUS mentions a remarkable effect

of an earthquake which occurred while he was at Batavia. All the clocks, the pendulums of which oscillated east and west stood still; but those which hung to the north and south were not affected.-Vol. 1, p. 172.

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Simoom.]

ACCORDING to the physicians, garlic is above all things necessary for those who travel in the desert to keep off the bad effects of the Simoom."-EVLIA.

[Satanic Origin of Onions and Garlic]. "I HAVE seen it recounted in a history," says EVLIA," that when Satan stept out from Paradise on the earth garlic sprung up from the spot whereon he had put his left foot, and that onions sprouted out from the place whereon he set his right. But both verily are very pleasant food."

It is a very old notion. ERASMUS makes use of it in his "Naufragium."-J. W. W.

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"THE plantain trees," MR. FORBES says, are known to cool the atmosphere, and for this reason the gardeners in Hindostan often raise a clump at the end of a bed of betel,

because the cooler the situation the better the betel thrives."-Vol. 2, p. 409.

[Curious small Horses in India.]

"IN the nabob's stable at Cossimbazar was a collection of curious small horses, several not exceeding three feet in height; and one a most extraordinary dwarf, under that size, had the head, chest, and body of a full grown horse."-CRUSO in Forbes, vol. 4, p. 96.

[Rattle Snake Soup.]

DR. FORDYCE knew, the black servant of an Indian merchant in America, who was

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fond of soup made of rattle-snakes, in which he always boiled the head along with the rest of the animal, without any regard to the poison.-REES's Cyclopædia.

R. S. His good Speed to the Herball. "TRULY thou dost the world disclose which grows Promiscuous, here a Thorn and there a Rose. So shall black Vice's ugly face

add grace Unto the Virtue which shines next in place. So when a stinging Thorn shall wound, is found

An Herb to heal the soul, and make it sound." A Divine Herball, together with a Forest of Thornes, in Five Sermons, by THOMAS ADAMS, 1616.

[Pope Pius IV's Ship, and the Harbour of

Sandwich, in Kent.]

"I READ," says FULLER, in his Good Thoughts, "how Pope Pius IV. had a great ship richly laden landed at Sandwich in Kent, where it suddenly sunk, and so with the sands choaked up the harbour, that ever since that place hath been deprived of the benefit thereof. I see that happiness doth not always attend the adventures of his Holiness. Would he had carried away his ship and left us our harbour. May his spiritual merchandize never come more into this island, but rather sink in Tiber than sail thus far, bringing so small good, and so great annoyance. Sure he is not so happy in opening the doors of heaven, as he is unhappy to obstruct havens on earth."

[Gin-Dutch Antidote against Ague.] "THE Dutch, though not a drunken people, drink raw gin, and recommend it to strangers, to repel the fever and ague. They have very great faith in its efficacy." -SILLIMAN'S Travels, vol. 2, p. 166.

[The Hebrew Jod.]

"THE Jod in Jehovah is one of those things which eye hath not seen, but which has been concealed from all mankind. Its essence and nature are incomprehensible; it is not lawful so much as to meditate upon it. Man may lawfully revolve his thoughts from one end of the heavens to the other, but he cannot approach that inaccessible light, that primitive existence contained in

the letter Jod. And indeed the Masters call the letter Thought, or Idea, and prescribe no bounds to its efficacy. 'Twas this letter which flowing from the primitive Light gave being to Emanations; it wearied itself by the way, but assumed new vigour by the assistance of the letter H. He, which makes the second letter of the Ineffable Name. The other letters have also their mysteries. The last H discovers the Unity of a God and Creator; and upon this letter that grand truth is built: but four great rivers issue from this Unity; the four Majesties of God, which the Jews call Schek

mal. The whole name Jehovah includes in it all things in general, and therefore he that pronounces it, puts the whole world into his mouth, and all the creatures that compose it.”—BASNAGE, book 3, ch. 13.

"THE man that pronounces the name of the Lord moves the heavens and earth in proportion as he moves his lips and tongue. The Angels feel the motion of the Universe and are astonished, and ask one another whence comes this concussion of the world? 'Tis answered that the impious N. has moved his lips in pronouncing the Ineffable Name. At the same time an indictment is drawn up against this wretch, all the sins he has committed are numbered, and he rarely escapes condemnation."—Ibid.

[Warrior Dogs' Voracity in Guatemala.]

IN Mexico los perros bravos que servian en la guerra, y avian sido sepultura de muchos Reyes y Caziques, faltandoles este alimento,

[Wesley's Account of a Chancery Bill.] "I CALLED on the solicitor whom I had employed in the suit lately commenced against me in Chancery. And here I first saw that foul monster, a Chancery Bill! A scroll it was of forty-two pages, in large folio, to tell a story which needed not to have taken up forty lines! And stuffed with such stupid, senseless, improbable lies (many of them too quite foreign to the question) as I believe would have cost the compiler his life in any Heathen court, either of Greece or Rome. And this is Equity in a Christian country! This is the English method of redressing other grievances."— Journal, vol. 6, p. 46.

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[American Independence hatched in England.]

"THEY are not injured at all, seeing they are not contending for liberty, (this they had even in its full extent, both civil and religious) neither for any legal privileges: for they enjoy all that their charters grant. But what they contend for is, the Illegal Privilege of being exempt from parliamentary taxation. A privilege this, which no charter ever gave to any American colony yet; which no charter can give, unless it be confirmed both by King, Lords, and Commons: which in fact our colonies never had; which they never claimed till the present reign. And probably they would not have claimed it now, had they not been incited thereto by letters from England. One of these was read, according to the desire of the writer, not only at the Continental Congress, but likewise in many congregations throughout the combined provinces. It advised them to seize upon all the King's officers, and exhorted them to 'stand valiantly, only for six months, and in that time there will be such commotions in England that you may have your own terms.””—Ibid.

[Truth-telling, in John Dunton's Days, un

common in New England.]

JOHN DUNTON Says of one person, that "he was a great Dissenter while he lived in London, and even in New England retains the piety of the first planters ;" and of another, "this was a noted quality in him that he would always tell the truth; which is a practice so uncommon in New England, that I could not but value his friendship.” He speaks also of the "starchedness of carriage usual amongst the Bostonians."

Morte Arthur.

"BOTH in their nature, and in the fate which attended them," says MR. DAVIES, "the predictions of our Caledonian Druid

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(Merddin) seem to have resembled the celebrated lots or oracles of Musæus, which are mentioned and obliquely quoted by Herodotus. These were in such high credit among Greeks and Barbarians, that men of rank and talents thought them worth interpolating for political purposes. But the Athenians thought the crime worthy of banishment; and with good reason: the sacred predictions had an authority which could embolden foreign princes to invade their country."-Mythology of the Druids, p. 491. See Herodotus, 1. 7, c. 6.

[Old Maids of Boston.]

"An old or superannuated maid in Boston," says JOHN DUNTON, "is thought such a curse as nothing can exceed it, and looked on as a dismal spectacle.”

[Liberty of the Press in Revolutionized
France!]

"You will signify to the editor of the (Brussels) Oracle" (it is FOUCHÉ who speaks, in his instructions to the Prefect, 1809) "that he must confine himself to copying the Moniteur literally; that he is forbidden to extract any article from other Paris Papers, or those of the departments; that the least departure from these conditions will be punished by the suppression of his journal, besides the measures of high police which may be taken in regard to him."

[Dr. Thomas Wykes and his Nag.] "DR. THOMAS WYKES, Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, and last Dean of St. Burien. He had wit enough, but it was not in a wise man's keeping, as it often happens: this appears by an answer he gave to King Charles I. when he was in Cornwall in the time of the civil wars. The Doctor being well mounted and near his Majesty, the King

spoke thus to him, Doctor, you have a pretty nag under you, I pray how old is he? To which he, out of the abundance of the quibbles of his heart, returned this answer, If it please your Majesty he is now in the second year of his reign; pleasing himself with the ambiguity of the sound of that word, signifying either kingship or bridle. The good King did not like this unmannerly jest, and gave him such an answer as he deserved, which was this, Go, you are a fool.”—WALTER POPE'S Life of Bishop Ward, p. 59.

Shipwreck of the Gloucester, 1682.

"A STORY Wonderful and honourable for the English seamen. "Tis an amazing thing that mariners, who are usually as rough as the element they converse in, when inevitable death was before their eyes, and to be incurred within a very few minutes,—that mariners, I say, should have that presence of mind, that inestimable value and deference for the Duke of York, as being of the blood royal and brother to their king, as to take care of his safety and neglect their own; to put him into a boat, and permit no other persons to enter into it but those he called out of the sinking ship, for fear of over-lading it; and as soon as they perceived the boat clear of the ship, and the Prince out of danger, that they all of them should throw up their caps, and make loud acclamations and huzzas of joy, as if they had obtained some signal victory over their enemies, and in this rapture sink to the bottom immediately, at the same instant concluding their lives and their jubilation." -Ibid. 87. p.

[Huge Bell.]

On the 21st of July, 1711, the Emperor Joseph ordered a great bell to be made of the cannon which the Turks left when they raised the siege of Vienna. It is thirty thousand pounds weight; its diameter ten