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half-stripped, robbed, and left tied to a tree near the spot possibly by the same wretch who had, in turn, overhauled me."

D. D.'s recollections of how crayfish, which abounded in the New River (especially near the Sluice House), were caught, do not quite coincide with my own. They are not so plentiful in the mud banks as they were amongst the piles abutting on the bridges, especially the wooden one at the Sluice House, which spanned the river opposite to that rural retreat, and led to the fields beyond (this bridge, by the by, had a locked gate upon it). The bait always used was a lump of boiled lights affixed to a stone with a hole through it. A yard of string was tied to the stone, and the tempting morsel was let -carefully down between the timbers, for it was thereabouts the crustaceous little things lived by the hundred. It was a poor Saturday afternoon's holiday work if half a dozen, or even double that number, were not caught. A public-house, in the midst of a wilderness of closely built streets, now .stands upon the site of the old Sluice House.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

"BRUMBY" (10 S. vi. 430, 476). When preparing his ' Austral English,' the late Prof. Morris made many inquires about the origin of this word ; but, as PROF. STRONG has pointed out, no certain answer could be obtained. To me the native origin seems most probable : the other story lacks con- firmation. Has any one found Lieut. Brumby in the records ? Is there any point in the importation, or in the goodness of his horses, or in anything but their wildness ? And other horses would go wild as readily .as his. Morris says :

"ooram1>t/ is given [in Curr's 'Australian Race'] as meaning 'wild' on the Warrego in Queensland. Ihe use of the word seems to have spread from the Warrego and the Balowne about 1864. Before that date wild horses were called clear - vkiiut or ffcritboerti.

There are both Brumbys and Brombys in Australia and Tasmania ; and a grant of land is recorded (' Hist. Records of N.S.W.,' vol. iv.) to James Brumby, a private soldier in the N.S.W. Corps, along with some com- rades, in May, 1797. This James, or one of his descendants, may be the origin of the lieutenant story. And in this connexion, perhaps, I may repeat to MR. MACMICHAEL the old warning given to visitors to Australia, to be careful about mentioning Botany Bay ; especially as his note ends with what is in form a positive assertion, though doubtless meant for a probability. My own family,

and, as far as I know, all Brombys date in Australia from 1858 ; and the above- mentioned grant of land seems to show that our cousins the Brumbys have a respectable colonial antiquity. If it were otherwise, the caution would be equally necessary.

The hamlet in Lincolnshire I have usually seen written Brumby : in Domesday Book it is Brunebi (? Brook-town), as are three or four Yorkshire villages, including Burnby, near Pocklington. E. H. BROMBY.

University, Melbourne.

HOEK VAN HOLLAND (10 S. vii. 188, 236). ST. SWITHIN, after naming Hook Head, says : " I do not know of any other example within the bounds of the United Kingdom." Penton Hook is an example of " a bend " less in the nature of a common hook than in that of the eye to which the hook corre- sponds. D.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. vii. 208). So passeth in the passing of a day.

Spenser, ' F. Q. ,' II. xii. 75. Amongst wide waves set, like a little nest.

T. Q.,'II. vi. 12. We mortals cross the ocean of this world.

Browning, ' Bp. Blougram's Apology,' 1. 100.

H. K. ST. J. S. So passeth in the passing of a day. is a line in a song in ' The Faerie Queene,' sung in Acrasia's Bower of Bliss ; but the whole song is an imitation, or translation, of one in Tasso's ' Jerusalem Delivered,' canto xvi. E. YARDLEY.

The third of H. T. D.'s quotations should read

When Byron's eyes were shut in death. The lines are part of Matthew Arnold's ' Memorial Verses ' on the death of Words- worth (April, 1850), published in ' Empedocles on Etna ' (1852), and beginning " Goethe in Weimar sleeps." L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

The fourth quotation in the query of H. T. D., " Icicles clink," &c., is by Horace Smith, and appears in the ' Sabrinae Corolla ' with a Latin version by the late Prof. Kennedy. Can this Horace Smith be one of the brothers who wrote the ' Rejected Addresses ' ? C. S. JERRAM.

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 * "C. C. B. arid the REV. J. PICKFORD also thanked

PAL^EOLOGUS IN THE WEST INDIES (10 S. vii. 209). According to a letter in The Daily Chronicle of 21 May, 1897, the West Indian Paleeologi were the descendants of " Theo-