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NOTES AND QUERIES. i[io s. x. DEC. 5, on the branches of a willow, as  has witnessed near the Trent—simply to warn off any living mole that may approach the place. A similar motive probably originated the custom in Northern China, under the sway of the Liau Tartars (tenth to twelfth century ), of burning moles on New Year's Day, in order, as the historians say, to avert influences of bad omen (Dr. O. F. von Möllendorff,'" [sic]The Vertebrata of the Province of Chihli," Journal of the North China Branch of the Roy. As. Soc., New Series, xi. 54, Shanghai, 1877).

See 'Robinson Crusoe':—

THAMES STEAMBOATS (10 S. ix. 408). The letter inquired for is probably that signed " Investigator," which appeared in The Times of 5 Dec., 1862. It gives an account of a steamer named the Margery, built at Dumbarton, and brought to the Thames in 1815. The letter was quoted in an article on early steam navigation which appeared in Fairplay, of 2 July last, p. 3. R. B. P.

HAMPSTEAD IN SONG (10 S. x. 187, 296, 377). A description of London scenery in Thomson's ' Summer ' includes a reference to Hampstead. From the point of obser- vation afforded by Richmond Hill, " thy hill, delightful Shene," the poet depicts as follows :

Here let us sweep

The boundless landscape ; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, arid now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. Thomson explains in a note that by " the sister hills " are meant " Highgate and Hampstead." W. B.

To the extracts given may be added some in W. Whitten's ' London in Song,' pub- lished in 1898. AYEAHR.

"EVERGLADE": ITS DERIVATION (10 S. x. 105, 158). I am afraid an A.-S. origin for this word is out of the question, as it was formed on j, American soil, according to the ' N.E.D.' H. P. L. is apparently

unaware, too, of the fact that the pig is not- indigenous to this continent. If the word " ever " be merely, as I think it is, an altered form of " over " in this compound, whether as adverb or as preposition, it can properly enough be termed a prefix, for etymological purposes. N. W. HILL.

New York.

ARMS OF ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLIC- BISHOPS (10 S. x. 228, 316). With reference to MR. WAINE WRIGHT'S second question, I may say that Bishop Redman's tomb at Ely supplies another instance of a bishop impaling the arms of his see. It is note- worthy that in this case the paternal coat occupies the dexter side of the shield.

C. J.

" PETERSBURG " OR " ST. PETERSBURG "" (10 S. x. 306, 357). In the British Museum Catalogue the imprints to books published in this city spell the name as often as not in one word " Sanktpeterburg." I once asked a Russian traveller whether it was therefore permissible to omit the " St." at all, and he replied that this was usual con- ventionally, and sent me a railway time- table with the name " Peterburg " alone. The letter s is not in the original.

A. WATTS.

PROVERBS AND POPULAR PHRASES (10 S. x. 281, 374). H. P. L. has mistaken the object of my two contributions on this- head, which was to stimulate original research, and in a specified direction, and not the consultation of books of reference. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

DR. BEAUFORD, RECTOR OF CAMELFORI> (10 S. x. 349, 412). I am much obliged to MESSRS. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT and A. L. HUMPHREYS for their information concerning the above. A. R. BAYLEY.

BREMBRE OR BRAMBRE (10 S. x. 306). The name is certainly written " Brembre " in the vivacious contemporary petition printed in vol. iii. of the ' Rolls of Parlia- ment,' at pp. 225-6. Q. V.

" THE BONNIE CRAVAT," TAVERN SIGN (10 S. x. 365). The 'English Dialect Dictionary ' appears to justify MR. FYN- MORE'S supposition that a " cravat " or " carvet " is something akin to a thick hedgerow. We are there told that in Kent a " carvet " is "a thick hedgerow ; a copse by the roadside ; a piece of land carved out of another."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.