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the '-'Ship," but to the "Trafalgar." The "Ship" had no balconies, and the scene from the window would take in the Hospital, whereas the view from the balcony shows the reach from the "Trafalgar" in an oblique direction down to Blackwall Point; the trees on the right bank now all gone are seen in the background. The only known representation of the old "Ship" is on a view showing the contemplated improve- ments in connexion with the new pier, pub- lished in the year 1836. The only description is in Timbs's ' Clubs and Club Life/ p. 439, which says the house " was built with weather board in front, and a bow window to command a view of the river." The back is shown in Clarkson Stanfield's ' View of Fisher Lane,' now in the Naval Museum, Greenwich, and reproduced in Marryat's ' Poor Jack.' AYEAHR.

INSCRIPTIONS AT OROTAVA, TENERIFE (10 th S. i. 361). I understand from Miss Ethel Dixon that Miss Edith Gennings is incor- rectly spelt as "Jennings" in No. 56 in the above-named note. RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

INDIAN SPORT (10 th S. i. 349, 397). EMERITUS will also find information on the subject of Indian sport in a work entitled

Oriental Field Sports. Embellished with 40 coloured Engravings, the whole taken from the Manuscript and Design of Capt. Thomas William- son, who served upwards of twenty years in Bengal, the Drawings by Samuel Howett. London : printed by William Bulmer & Co., Shakspeare Printing Office, for Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty, Engraver and Publisher, Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street, 1807.

F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART. Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

IBERIAN INSCRIPTIONS IN HIBERNIA (10 th S. i. 388). The legend that some of the inhabitants of the British Isles were Iberian emigrants from Spain is based, I believe, on a remark by Tacitus which Canon Taylor (discussing the neolithic "Iberian" in his 'Origin of the Aryans') calls a guess of no importance. As they inhabited so large a portion of Western Europe it certainly seems that the feeble, troglodytic or long-barrow Iberian cannibals would find the transit from Great Britain to Ireland much less perilous than a considerable voyage from Spain in frail coracles or dug-outs. As to the mys- terious inscriptions on the Spanish "Iberian " coins, Wormius and Hud beck connected them with Visigothic runes, but Taylor was of opinion that the language of the ethnological Iberian was probably Hamitic, akin to the

Numidian. It would be very remarkable if two such obscure languages as Iberian and Etruscan proved to be related.

J. DORMER.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL PROVERBS IN THE WAVERLEY NOVELS (10 th S. i. 383, 402). In MR. BOUCHIER'S quotation of the Gaelic proverb from 'Waverley' "Mar e Bran is e a brathair," the first word should be mur y which means " if not " (nisi), whereas mar means " as " (velut or uf) used in similes and comparisons. I have not the book at hand, and it is quite likely the proverb is correctly transcribed; but Sir Walter Scott (or his printer) often makes mistakes in Gaelic words. C. S. JERRAM.

Oxford.

My friend MR. BOUCHIER has inadvertently omitted two very amusing ones from 'Red- gauntlet,' which occur in the account of the memorable consultation between Peter Peebles and his solicitor Mr. Fairford :

'"The counsel to the Lord Ordinary,' continued Peter, once set agoing, like the peal of an alarm clock, ' the Ordinary to the Inner House, the President to the Bench. It is just like the rope to the man, the man to the ox, the ox to the water, the water to the fire.' "Letter xiii. And in the same letter :

'"Better have a wineglass, Mr. Peebles,' said my father in an admonitory tone ; ' you will find it pretty strong' [i.e., the brandy]. 'If the kirk is ower muckle, we can sing mass in the choir,' said Peter, helping himself in the goblet out of which he had been drinking the small beer."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BRAZEN BIJOU (10 th S. i. 369). At the Array and Navy Stores this is represented by a brazen "crane," which may be bought for the same price as the bijou valued in 1830 at "about two shillings." My cook, who is, I think, a Yorkshire woman, believes the article is called a "spittle," though apparently the name is in disuse with her, as it took her some moments to recall it to mind. At my request she consulted her fellow-servants, and the result was that one of them pro- duced a dictionary in which "Spit, a bar on which meat is roasted," was supposed to fur- nish the required information. Bottle-jacks still survive in the fashionable emporium I have mentioned above, and I am glad to say that one is yet active in my own benighted kitchen. ST. SWITHIN.

If MR. HIBGAME will turn to p. 97 of the "Household Edition" of ' Great Expectations,' he will there find an illustration in which the "brazen bijou" referred to on the previous