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him : "In the lexicon of the Pioneer officer there is no such word as impossible.'*

W. TUFNELL.

[Your quotation, which omits a line, comes from Bulwer Lytton's 'Richelieu,' Act II. sc. ii.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Macaulay in his ' Essay on Addison * quotes the following lines from a " Blenheim poem," which, he says, ' ' has been rescued from oblivion by the exquisite absurdity " of these lines :

Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.

Can any one give me information as to the poem itself ? P. C. G.

Calcutta.

I seek the sources of the fallowing :

1 . The eternal Peter of the changeless Chair.

2. When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

3. Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

4. Talk of mountains now ?

We talk of mould that heaps the mountains,

mites That throng the mould, and God that makes

the mites. The name comes close behind a stomach-cyst.

T. W. L. H.

[2. Emerson, 'Give All to Love.' 3. M. Arnold, ' Sonnet to a Friend,' said of Sophocles.]

Three men they went a-hunting, but nothing could

they find Until they saw a hedgehog, and that they left

behind.

Said the Englishman, " 'Tis a hedgehog," But Scottie he said " Nae" : " Bedad," said Pat, "it's a pincushion With the pins stuck in -wrong way."

I fear the wording is not quite correct, but it is the nearest I can remember.

BESSIE M. RICHARDS.

HAMMERSMITH TERRACE. I should be extremely obliged if any of your readers would tt-ll me anything* of the historical and social associations of Hammersmith Tcrmee. I understand the terrace was built in the reign of Queen Anne, and that, besides Murphy the dramatist and De Loutherbour^ the Academician, numerous eH< -I >rities have occupied its houses. I am told that the barges bearing pleasure- 1<> Kanelagh used to be moored mation would be very welcome.
 * i'j;mi-;f thr Lack-; of the houses. Any infor-

J. LANGLEY LEVY. ]>!/;/ Express Office, St. Bride Street, E.G.

" ROSAMOND A'S LAKE." This expression occurs in the famous passage in ' The Rape of the Lock' (Canto V.) in which the poet describes the Apotheosis of the " ravish' d hair," when as a sudden comet " it shot thro' liquid air,"' "the heav'ns bespangling with dishevel'd light."- We are told This the blest Lover shall for Venus take. And send up vows from Rosamonda's lake. Can any of your readers tell me why lovers' vows should be sent up from " Rosa- monda's lake " ? Is it possible to find this " lake " on any map of the Ordnance Survey? A. L. MAYHEW.

PETERSFIELD OLD INNS. According to the ' Victoria County History of Hampshire * an inn called " The Lion " is mentioned in the rent-roll of 1696-7. Is this the same hostelry as "The Red Lion, n given by ' Paterson's Roads' (1826) as one of the principal inns at Petersfield ? What were the leading inns in 1765 ? Did the old " Dolphin " then exist ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

DEANERY OF WOLVERHAMPTON. Was this in early days in private possession ? Since the time of Edward IV. it has had a con- nexion with Windsor. From a lawsuit in the time of Edward III. it would seem to have been previously in private ownership ; and a brief abstract of a trial held before Simon (Sudbury), Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1367-8, given in the Salt collection of archaeological papers (xiv. 122), appears to confirm this. R. B.

Upton.

COL. FRANCIS GODFREY. I shall be obliged to any reader who can give me particulars of the above gentleman's antecedents, with dates of his birth, marriage, and death ; also his wife's name, and where married. He is said to have been of an old Oxfordshire family, and was the father of Col. Charles Godfrey (10 S. vi. 49, 116, 155). Where can I see the pedigree of the family ?

F. GODFERY. 2, Morton Crescent, Exmouth.

" SQUASH." I read that a distinguished co-religionist of mine is going to invite some young Cantabs to "a squash. " What are its leading features ? Why so called ? What is the identical social function called in the famous city on the Isis ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

[Surely a "squash" is in general use as slang For a crowded entertainment.]

ASHBY FALLOWS. St. Mary's burial register, Nottingham, contains this entry