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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. AUG. is,

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am anxious to trace to their sources the follow- ing quotations :

1. Transeat hoc quoque inter fugacia bona.

2. Errores primse concoctionis raro corriguntur in secunda aut tertia.

3. Ingeniosus in alienis malis.

4. Onmia mea desideria, labores omnes, omnes curas.

5. Sum similior ambigenti.

I should also like to be able to explain the references in the following :

6. "Virtue ...... is Peregrina in terris, in cselo

civis."

7. "1 have this day practised the rule of life, Diffidere" (cf. Bacon, 'Nov. Org.,' i. 92, "Pru- dentia civilis ...... ex prsescripto diffidit").

8. "The words of the tragedian, Jam mansueta mala" (cf. Livy, iii. 16, "Mansuetum id malum").

In the following quotations the author is given, but not the exact reference.

9. Ego soleo hortari amicos meos ut in melan- cholicis afFectionibus abstineant a validioribus remediis. (Galen.)

10. Omnis morbus contra complexionatum pati- entis vel temporis est periculosus aut longus. (Avicenna. )

11. In adversities to compress murmur, "for our Providence," sayth he, ""is too short to judge whether there may not lie, under the outside of an apparent evil, some unimaginable good." (Plato.)

12. In which of his writings did Averrhoes de- scribe the situation of Venice as being seated in the very middle point between the equinoctial and the Northern Pole, at 45 degrees precisely ?

H. W.

BATHING-MACHINES. (10 th S. ii. 67.)

THE earliest English bathing-machines were, I think, those introduced by a Mr. Beale at Margate. I have apparently mislaid a large engraving (trade card) of his which, if I mistake not, contains a date. Towards the end of the eighteenth century James Mitchener was supplying machines, also at Margate. His trade card or more properly shop bill affords a representation of an enclosure on the shore, an office, waiting- room, and very quaint machines. The undertaking is advertised as follows :

"At Margate in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, is greeted by James Mitchener Commodious Machines for Bathing m the Sea. Where the Nobility Gentry & others who are pleased to Favour him may depend on all possible Care with a proper Guide for the Ladies, and himself for the Gentle- men, and their Favours thankfully acknowledg'd by 1 heir most Obedient and humble Servant, James Mitchener. Elizabeth Rowe, Guide." (Masonic emblems in the margin.)

Later in date perhaps 1810-20 is the

well-engraved ticket of Amidas and Mary Sufflen, also of " Margate in Kent." Here, again, is a private enclosure, bathing- machines of a type approximating to that of those now in use, and "a neat and convenient Bathing Room," with steps leading down to the sea. Internal comfort is suggested by the presence of a chimney, and the female bathers were conducted to the ocean by the lady herself as a guide. J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

In "A short Description of the Isle of Thanet; being chiefly intended as a direc- tory for the company resorting to Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs," published at Margate in 1796, the following account is given of the bathing at Margate :

"Near the sea are several commodious bathing- rooms, which are the general resort of the company every morning, and where they either drink the salt water, or in their several turns are driven in the machines to any depth in the sea, under the conduct of careful and experienced guides ; within the machine is a door through which the bathers descend a few steps into the water, where they are concealed from public view by an umbrella of canvas attached to the back part of the machine : about forty of these machines are frequently employed every morning. The public are obliged to Benjamin Beale, one of the people called Quakers, for the invention of them ; their structure is at once simple and convenient, and the pleasures of bathing may, under their friendly shade, be enjoyed-in so private a manner, as not to offend the strictest and most refined delicacy."

I have a small engraving (about Gin. by 3|in.) headed "For Bathing in the sea at Margate in the Isle of Thanet, Kent." It shows the machines in different positions, and the bathing - rooms mentioned above. There is no date or name on the engraving ; but it may probably be about the same date as the 'Directory,' or a little earlier.

J. F. R.

In the Home Counties Magazine for October, 1903, a facsimile was given of a business card relating to bathing in the sea at Margate. It bears no date, but may presumably belong to the latter years of the eighteenth century. The upper part of the card contains a roughly drawn representation of a bathing-machine being drawn by a horse up the beach to- wards a bathing-house. On the side of the machine is inscribed in large letters " Wood's Machine," and on the space in the picture devoted to the sky is displayed the legend, " Careful Guides to the Ladies. Thos. Wood to Gentlemen." Beneath the picture is the following advertisement :

" At Margate in Kent, Thomas Wood, Successor to William Crow, hath every Accommodation for Bathing in the Sea at his Room in High Street, with careful Guides by whom all Favours will be