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page is shown suspended from the mantel- piece. The artist, Mr. F. A. Fraser, was evidently fully cognizant of the article in question. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

I have one ; its designation is ' jack-bar." The country people call it a "sweek."

C. L. POOLE. Alsager, Cheshire.

"SEND" OF THE SEA (10 th S. i. 368). I do not think " send " means " current : ' at all. I see a good many papers relating to sea-sal- vage, and I always understand "send" to mean rise and fall or drop not of the tide, but of the sea as worked up by a (perhaps distant) storm. A heavy "send," lifting a diver's cutter first high into the air and then dropping it again, is not conducive to diving operations. D. 0.

MR. DODGSON is incorrect in supposing that the "send " of the sea is an expression which refers to the current. It refers to the sway- ing or motion of the water, which may have either an upward or downward force. In the case of the submarine A 1 it is easy to under- stand that the hawsers parted owing to a motion of this nature, though they could easily have withstood a current, however strong. PHILIP BELBEN.

Broadstone.

In Dana's ' Seaman's Manual,' revised and corrected by John J. Mayo, Kegistrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, 1867, p. 112, "send" is a term applied to the action of a ship's head or stern when pitching suddenly and violently into the trough of the sea. The word is apparently a contraction of "ascend- ing," for Smyth, in his 'Sailor's Word-Book,' has "Sending, 'scending, the act of being thrown about violently when adrift."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SCOTCH WORDS AND ENGLISH COMMENTA- TORS (10 th S. i. 261, 321, 375). A noticeable practice of the London journalist seems worthy of mention under this head. From time to time a Scottish word or phrase becomes fashionable, and straightway it is paraded with diverting iteration, and, as often as not, with an innocence of its true inwardness that is nothing short of pathetic " Canny " was long a hapless victim in thk way, and "unco" would appear to be now coming into favour. On 7 May a prominent literary journal had a notice of Mr. Max Beerbohm's ' The Poets' Corner,' which closed with the remark, "Such funning as this i wholesome, especially for the unco' serious. As the cheerful dogmatist who is responsible

! or this appears to think that the Scottish term he playfully employs lacks something of perfect form, it would be entertaining to- gather from him how he imagines it would "ook if it were presented in full dress.

THOMAS BAYNE.

I did not quote enough from Collins. The AVO additional lines make the resemblance- stronger :

tfow air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat ith short, shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne, in heedless hum.

I need not have quoted one line of Gray : The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. t was unnecessary. E. YARDLEY.

TEA AS A MEAL (8 th S. ix. 387 ; x. 244 ; 9 th ' S. xii. 351 ; 10 th S. i. 176, 209). One of the- characters in Farquhar's play of ' The Beaux' Stratagem,' produced in 1707, named Archer., sings a song in the third scene of the third act, of which the following is a stanza : What mortal man would be able At White's half-an-hour to sit? Or who could bear a tea-table, Without talking of trifles for wit ?

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

"CHOP-DOLLAR" (10 th S. i. 346). If your correspondent Du AH Coo is interested in the history of this word, it is curious that he is unaware of the exhaustive article on the subject in Yule-Burnell, ' Hobson-Jobson.' Unless any one is able to add to the informa- tion collected by Col. Yule, it seems useless to discuss the word further. "Chop," in its- Oriental sense, is given in the 'H.E.LV

EMERITUS.

COPPER COINS AND TOKENS (10 th S. i. 248, 335). Several methods of cleaning copper and bronze coins will be found in Dr. Friedrich Rathgen's handbook, 'Die Kon- servirung von Alterthumsfunden ' (especially pp. 120 et seg.), published under the auspices of the Imperial Museum at Berlin. Dr. Kath- gen herein quotes from an article by himself upon the subject in Dingler's Polytechn. Journal, 1896, Band 301, S. 44. An English translation of the handbook will appear shortly. GEORGE A. AUDEN.

BRADLEY, co. SOUTHAMPTON : CLARK FAMILY (10 th S. i. 389). Had Richard Cromwell, some- time Protector of Great Britain and Ireland, a second wife? Certainly "Queen Dick," between his flight from England and his return thereto, 1660-80, sometimes passed as