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interval of fifteen years (see 7 th S. viii.), should inquire for a "Mrs. Carey," although the lady referred to was well known at the commencement of the last century as Mary Anne Clarke. Huish, in his ' Memoirs of George IV.,' also calls her "Mrs. Carey." Did she ever adopt that name?

In the preface to the work ' Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges preferred against the Duke of York,' by Col. Wardle, M.P., 1809, now before me, she is stated to have been the daughter of a Mr. Farquhar, and to have been married at the age of fifteen to Mr. Joseph Clarke, the son of a respectable builder of Snow Hill, London, the offspring being two boys and a girl then living. In 1802, in consequence of Mr. Clarke's dissolute life, she separated from him, and in the following year placed herself under the pro- tection of the Duke of York. These par- ticulars differ in every respect from those given in 1 st S. iv., 4 th S. xi., xii., 6 th S. xi., 7 th S. viii., 8 th S. vii., 9 th S. vii.

EVERARD HOME GOLEM AN.

71, Brecknock Road.

" HE SAW A WORLD " (10 th S. ii. 488). The lines quoted seem to be a confused remi- niscence of a verse by William Blake in ' Auguries of Innocence,' a poem beginning thus :

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower : Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

See his 'Poetical Works,' edited by W. M- Rossetti, p. 180 (Bell & Sons, 1891).

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

BIRTH AT SEA IN 1805 (10 th S. ii. 448, 512). Perhaps this birth may be entered in the records of the Royal Navy at the Admiralty in Whitehall, or at the Public Record Office.

If the ports are known from which the vessel departed and at which she arrived in 1805, Lloyd's List and .Lloyd's Register of Shipping (at the library of Lloyd's, Royal Exchange, London) would show the names of the vessels which left the port of departure in 1804-5, the ports they sailed for, the dates of departure from, and of arrival at each, respectively, and their owners' names.

The newspapers, gazettes, magazines, &c., of that time, both at the ports of de- parture and of arrival, would probably give the list of passengers embarked and landed. If the business of the then owners be traced down to the present time, it is probable that the log or journal of the particular vessel required may still bo in existence, and contain an entry of this birth.

If the vessel belonged to the Royal Navy r her log should be at the Public Record Office or perhaps at the British Museum. If she belonged to, or was hired by, the East India Company, her log would be at the India Office, Whitehall.

The birth would not have been officially registered in England, as the Act 6 & 7 William IV., cap. 86, sec. 20, making a record of births compulsory, did not come into force until 1 March, 1837. It is also impossible to say positively where it would be found, either as a birth or a baptism, in any ecclesiastical record in England, or even iff entered in any such record. But in any case, if the name of the vessel be known, there can be no very great difficulty to find a record of the birth, especially if the ship's- log or journal is extant. C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

THE MUSSUK (10 th S. ii. 263. 329, 371, 431). Olufsen, in ' Through the Unknown Pamirs,' p. 44, writes :

The chief means of water transport employed

is made of the entire hide of an animal, the skin of a goat or wolf being preferred. It is tanned quite smooth, the holes at the head and three of the legs are tied taut, while in the fourth leg is placed a wooden tap with a wooden stopple. Through the tap the skin is blown full by the native, who seizes- the tap with his left hand, and with his left elbow presses the distended hide close up to his chest. He now throws himself into the stream, and whilst the hide keeps him above water, he, with his legs- and right arm, works slantwise across the river."

There is more on the same subject.

H. A. ST. J. M.

If MR. RALPH THOMAS has not yet succeeded in procuring an illustration of the skin-boat from India, he may perhaps be interested to- find an account, with a photograph, of the senai, as it is called on the Indus, in that very pleasant book Gore's ' Lights and Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu High- lands of the Punjab,' pp. 121 ff.

EMERITUS.

'STEER TO THE NOR'-NOR'-WEST ' (10 th S. ii. 427, 490). I shall be much obliged to any one who will inform me who was the captain- to whom this incident is said to have happened. My grandfather, the late John Matthews, of St. Ives, Cornwall, owner and master of the schooner Eldred, who died in Australia 1866, was a master mariner from about 1825- to 1850, and made several voyages across the Atlantic. Many years after his death, a reputable person informed the deceased's son that he (Mr. Matthews) had related the