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BBITTEN (10 S. xi. 29). Possibly this name refers to Sheen's Burial-Ground, Church Lane, Whitechapel. In the County Council ' Return of the Burial-Grounds in the City of London ' (1895) is the following report concerning this ground :

" A private ground, immensely used and dis- gustingly crowded. It seems to have been at one time used by the congregation of the Baptists in Little Alie-street, and was then called ' Mr. Brittain's burial-ground.' If so, it existed in 1763. After being closed for burials it was used as a cooperage, and now it is Messrs. Fairclough's yard, and full of carts and sheds, &c. A new stable was built in 1894, but the London County Council declined to prevent its erection. The size of the ground is about acre, and the deserted chapel with adjoining plots of land are now for sale, but no further buildings should be allowed here."

Walker (' Gatherings from Graveyards,' 1839) describes it as "a private burying- place," and adds :

" The proprietor of this ground is an undertaker. He has planted it with trees and shrubs, which are sufficiently attractive, but the ground is saturated with human putrescence."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

DIABOLO : ITS ORIGIN (10 S. ix. 47). The T6>/6 dakugei Zasshi, Tokio, June, 1908, p. 264 has this note :

" ' Diabolo,' starting as a fashion in England and France one or two years ago, has now become very widely current in this country. Not a few persons fancy it is an entire novelty ; but, in fact, China and Korea had the sport from much earlier days, it having been before this practised in Europe and America too. In Japan it was already known and in great vogue in the period of Koan (A.D. 1278-87). .. .Its vernacular name is ' Ryiigo,' to which the people apply the Chinese ideographs ' Lin ' and ' Ku,' jointly meaning ' rolling spool.' Thus ' diabolo ' must never be accepted as an article of modern invention."

In his ' Kottoshu,' written about 1800, Iwase Samuru, the Japanese novelist and antiquary, cites numerous old native authors whose writings bear witness to the existence of this game contemporary with themselves. KUMAGTJSTJ MTNAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

xi. 93). It may be helpful to explain that " the locality called Egypt " in Southern Edinburgh, mentioned by MB. C. G. CONDELL, takes its name from Egypt, a farm which extended from the Jordan Burn at Morning- side to the Blackford Hill. As a child I lived in Morningside, and Egypt supplied vis with milk, the farm-house being occasion- ally visited for a banquet of curds and whey, with a subsequent surreptitious
 * j s EGYPT AS A PLACE-NAME (10 S. x. 447 ;

climb up the hill, which at that time was jealously preserved.

Between the Jordan Burn, which co- incided with the Parliamentary boundary, and Church Lane (formerly Canaan Road), in a nearly square area about a quarter of a mile in extent, there were to be found a number of Scriptural names, most of them in or near Jordan Lane and Canaan Lane. I recollect Canaan Cottage, Grove, Lodge, and Park ; Eden Grove and Hermitage ; Goshen and Goshen Bank ; Hebron Bank, Jordan Bank, Salem House, and Zion Mount. Perhaps some Edinburgh resident may be able to give useful information as to the occasion and date of this eruption of Biblical names ; unusual, I think, in the region of Edinburgh, though there is a Joppa on the shore of the Forth some seven miles distant from Morningside. From their appearance, as I recollect it, the houses mentioned must have been among the earliest dwellings (cottages excepted) in Morningside, and built from 70 to 100 years ago. E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN.

Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton.

It may interest your many readers to know that there is a place called Little Egypt near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. I imagine our being a Bible-reading nation accounts for the occurrence of this name. EDMUND ESSEX TERBETT.

In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, there is a town named Egypt. Not far from this town are Emmaus, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. Flowing through the region is a river known as the Jordan (called " creek " in that community). All this part of Penn- sylvania was settled by Moravians and Palatinate refugees, whose descendants became known as " Pennsylvania Dutch." JOHN L. STEWART.

Library, Lehigh University,

South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

THE MANORS OF NEYTE, EYBUBY, AND HYDE (10 S. x. 321, 461 ; xi. 22). MR. W. L. RUTTON inclines to the view that the Grosvenor Square area was part of the manor of Hyde, not of that of Eybury. I submit two considerations that seem to tell against this view.

1. In 1536 there was an exchange of lands between Henry VIII. and the Abbot of Westminster. One piece of land is

described as " a close called Brickclose

between the great close belonging to Eybery on the west and north and Condet Mede on the east " (' State Papers, Hen. VIII.,'