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Egypt. Prof. G. Maspero in ' The Struggle of the Nations,' 1896, p. 367, reproduces a fragment of a map of the gold-mines of Nubia, of about the time of Seti II., a king of the Nineteenth Dynasty, who reigned about 1214-1209 B.C., according to Prof. Petrie. This map is on papyrus, and Maspero describes it as the oldest map in the world. It is reproduced from Chabas, ' Les Inscriptions des Mines d'Or,' plate ii. Perhaps some, however, would give the palm for antiquity to the Chaldsean map of the world, of which Maspero gives a reproduction (* The Dawn of Civilization,' 1894, p. 775) from Zeitschrift fur Assyrio- logie, iv. 369.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS, F.R.G.S.

HOVE (10 S. ix. 450; x. 14, 111). The true pronunciation of this name is an im- portant factor in determining its meaning. Nowadays " Hove " rimes with " cove " ; but thirty or forty years ago old people in Brighton, of which town I am a native, pronounced the word in rime with " move " and " prove." In the sixteenth-century drawing depicting the burning of Brighthelm- stone by the French, in the Cotton MS. Augustus I. i. 18, we find " Hoove Churche " written : cf. the reproduction of this draw- ing which illustrates Dr. James Gairdner's paper in R. Hist. Soc. Trans., Third Series, vol. i., 1907 (frontispiece). " Hoove," then, postulates an A.-S. hdf, and that means a palace, a dwelling, a house.

A. ANSCOMBE.

30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.

HORNSEY : HlGHGATE AND ARABELLA

STUART (10 S. x. 46, 93). In Lloyd's ' History of Highgate ' (referred to in MR. MARRIOTT'S note) it is stated that Arundel House stood on the site now occupied by Charming House, Bletchworth House, and intervening houses, on " The Bank " on Highgate Hill. The last remaining wing of the house was, says Lloyd, pulled down in 1825. A modern house bearing the name Arundel House now occupies part of this site, and is next door to Bletchworth House. Lloyd gives a picture of part of the old Arundel House, from which, I presume, the view on the post cards MR. MARRIOTT speaks of was copied ; but these, I am told, are at present out of print, and I have not been able to obtain one in the neighbourhood. Lloyd shows clearly (as MR. MARRIOTT says) that it was in Sir William Bond's house that Arabella Stuart stayed, and MR. MARRIOTT now proves that our historian was mistaken in supposing this to have

been Arundel House. But why will not MR. MARRIOTT give the reasons for his con- jecture as to the site of the latter, and so help (as possibly he might do) in its iden- tification ? C. C. B.

"ABRACADABRA" (10 S. ix. 467; x. 35,. 54). The new ' Thesaurus Linguae Latinse " contents itself with quoting the origin for this word suggested by Buecheler : " Ficta videtur tinnula interpolatione abecedari."

Another derivation, offered by the late Dr. C. W. King, will be found in 'The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words- and Phrases,' edited by Dr. C. A. M. FennelL

EDWARD BENSLY. Bad Wildungen.

It may not be irrelevant to quote the well-known lines in Prior's ' Solomon/ ii. 356-63 :

Another nymph, amongst the many fair That made my softer hours their solemn care, Before the rest affected still to stand, And watched my eye, preventing my command. Abra she so was called did soonest haste To grace my presence ; Abra went the last : Abra was ready ere I called her name ; And, though I called another, Abra came,

In Exodus ii. 5 the Septuagint hag TYJV a/3pav for "her maid" (A.V.) or "her handmaid" (R.V.).

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

" THE PROTECTOR'S HEAD," INN SIGN (10* S. x. 30). Intelligent Puritan New England, from its beginnings republican to the core, acquired, let us say, in many a green lane and sombre manor house throughout Puritan Old England, must have had in town and country numerous eating and drinking houses familiarly commemorating, as it were, its profound esteem and hearty affec- tion for the immortal Cromwell. The best- known tavern recalling his name was " The- O. Cromwell Head Inn," which stood on School Street in Boston from 1705 to 1800. Cherished by the collector, a rare morsel of early American copperplate printing is the Paul Revere engraved bill-head, executed before the Revolution, for the proprietor of the inn, Joseph Brackett, who was proud of having had as his guests George Wash- ington in 1756 and the Marquis Chastellux in 1782. A facsimile of this rarity appears- in Goss's * Paul Revere,' with hand-coloured plates, 2 vols., royal 8vo, Boston, 189L See, too, Drake's ' Boston Taverns,' also his ' Old Landmarks of Boston.' The Whig of the period would quench his thirst here, butjmot the Tory, the latter, usually, in