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WILLIAM BULLOCK ox VIRGINIA (10 S. xi. 169, 236). On 12 March, 1634, Capt, Hugh Bullock was granted a patent for 2,550 acres of land extending from " the runn that falleth down by the Eastern side of a piece of land known by the name of the wood- yard," along the side of Pocoson, a great otter pond so called, &c. ( Virginia Magazine, ii. 414). Mr. William G. Stanard, whose knowledge of Virginian genealogies is pro- bably unsurpassed, adds this note :

il There is recorded in York county a deed dated July 8th, 1637, from Hugh Bullock, of London, gentleman, to his son, William Bullock, of London, gentleman, conveying his corn-mill, saw-mill, and plantation in Virginia. Hugh Bullock's wife, Mary, is mentioned. In General Court Records, April, 1672, is entry of a suit by Robert Bullock, son and heir of William Bullock, who was son and heir of Hugh Bullock, vs. Colonel Peter Jenings, guardian of John Matthews, orphan of Colonel Matthews, deceased, in regard to a parcel of land in Warwick county, containing 5,500 acres. There can hardly be a doubt that the William Bullock here mentioned was the person who wrote the well-known tract on Virginia. He states that both his father and himself had owned land here."

There is also an allusion to the suit against Col. Jenings (but there dated 6 April, 1671) in the WUliam and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 173, note ; x. 32, note.

On the first page of his ' Virginia Impar- tially Examined,' Bullock states that " he was never in this Place himself he writes of with so much confidence," but also speaks of " his own father living there about twelve years." And on the last page (66) he men- tions " my Chamber in the Middle-Temple." Bullock's tract on Virginia has never, I believe, been reprinted. It is often cited in Mr. Philip A. Bruce's ' Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century.' ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

FIRST OF MARCH : SWEEP " FLEES " AWAY (10 S. xi. 226). I have often heard my grandmother say, " On the 1st of March a peck of fleas is left at every door." She was a Lancashire woman, and maybe the saying is peculiar to the County Palatine. I fear that MR. RATCLIFFE'S suggestion that the creatures referred to are " flies," not " fleas," will hardly do. So early in the year as the beginning of March the trouble would be not so much to sweep away flies as to find them. JOHN B. TWYCROSS.

Streathani Hill.

POLISH DRAGOONS : " JAGER " (10 S. xi. 189, 256). The German word " Jager " has two significations. Either it means

the same as " sportsman," or it denotes something military. In this case it signifies some infantry corps which receives drafts from professional gamekeepers and foresters.

Founded by Frederick the Great, these " Jagers " formed a corps especially well armed and excellent marksmen, but badly drilled, therefore a kind of irregular troops. In time the difference between these ' Jagers " and infantry disappeared.

At present in Germany the Jager battalions differ from the infantry battalions by their green uniform, by being picked professional men, and by a special training in shooting. Their time - expired non - commissioned officers supply the lower ranks of forestry. V. GRONE, Lieutenant.

Berlin.

HENRY ELLISON (10 S. xi. 170). Henry Ellison died 13 Feb., 1880. See Mr. Miles's ' The Poets and the Poetry of the Century,' vol. x. C. C. B.

LIZARDS AND Music : ' THE Swiss FAMILY ROBINSON ' (10 S. xi. 167)." An English- man " who wrote " on the love of lizards for music," inquired about by M. H. GAIDOZ, wass William Swainson. The work in ques- tion was entitled ' On the Habits and In- stincts of Animals,' and was published in 1840 ; it was one of twelve volumes con- tributed by the author to " The Cabinet of Natural History " published by Longman & Co. The observations cited occur at p. 45, and were chiefly made in Sicily ; it is added that " the same experiments were frequently made upon the smaller lizards of Brazil, which, more or less, exhibited the same fondness for tunes."

Swainson believed " that nothing of the kind [had before] been observed among quadrupeds." In this, however, he was mistaken. Observations had been made a century earlier by the once celebrated Pere Labat.

Jean Baptiste Labat in 1722 first published the account of his ' Nouveau Voyage aux lies de I'Amerique.' In this he gave details of the manner in which natives of the West Indies captured iguanas by means of whist- ling. An English translation of the essential part may be found in ' The Standard Natural History ' (or ' Riverside Natural History'), vol. iii. p. 415, as well as else- I where.

For several generations a work of the Swiss Family Robinson.' has been very popular, and is still published in many edi-
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