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Highbury Terrace, Islington, a fine row of good houses, still bears the date 1789 on the central house. Colebrook Terrace, Upper Street, Islington, and Cloudesley Terrace, Liverpool Road, are, I believe, both older. MABIA POOLE.

Norwich.

" Terrace " was certainly used in it s present sense of a row of houses as early as the first decade of the last century. In a map of Bath, published in 1810 in a work entitled * A Guide to Watering-Places,' e,t the north - east corner of the city is a thoroughfare with houses on both sides called " Walcot Terrace." In the same book (p. 403) is a view of the " Terrace, Southend," of which the author writes : " The Terrace, which is commonly called New Southend, being built on a considerable eminence," &c.

Pennant's use of the word refers, I think, rather to the ground on which the houses are built than to the houses themselves. In his ' London,' 1793, p. 147, he says :

" Durham Yard is now filled with a most magni- ficent mass of building, called the Adelphi Before

the front to the Thames is a terrace commanding a charming view to the river."

By 1828 the word in its modern sense had become well established, largely in connexion with the new rows of houses encircling what had been Marylebone Fields, now dignified by the name of Regent's Park. In Elmes's ' Metropolitan Improvements,' 1830, there are a number of views of " Terraces " in this neighbourhood bearing date 1828, most of which are still in existence, Carrick Terrace being, I think, the single exception.

WM. NORMAN.

Plum stead.

John Nash, a well-known architect, laid out Regent's Park and most of the Terraces in that neighbourhood, such as York Terrace, Hanover Terrace, Cumberland Terrace, &c., in 1811. A. H. ARKLE.

Thomas Faulkner in his ' History of Hammersmith,' 1839, writes '(p. 342):

"Hammersmith Terrace is a pleasant row of houses, built about the year 1770, with an elevated terrace behind, the gardens of which form a private promenade for the inhabitants, and it commands fine views of the opposite shores of Surrey."

On p. 363 he writes :

"The handsome row of houses called Theresa Terrace was built about 1780, by Theophilus Walford, Esq., who named them [sic] after his daughter, Theresa."

Hammersmith Terrace still^retains an old- world charm (see 11 S. i. 250) ; *but Theresa

Terrace, which was on the south side of the main road called King Street, gave way some years ago to a forlorn row of shops.

In his ' History of Kensington,' published in 1820, Faulkner mentions " Kensington Terrace, a neat row of houses," but does not give the date when it was built.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

Hammersmith, W.

According to Craig's plan for the new town of Edinburgh, projected about 1770, a canal was to be made through the North Loch, and the northern bank of it to be laid out in terraces.

I find the following passage in ' The Traveller's Companion through the City of Edinburgh,' published by Alexander Kiu- caid in 1794, p. 65 :

"Nowhere in Britain can we find such a beautiful terrace as that of Prince's Street, or George's for elegance ; and Queen's Street for the sublimity of its prospects."

W. S. [MR. W. SCOTT also thanked for reply.]

ENGLISH MATHEMATICAL DIARIES (11 S. i. 147). Since my query on this subject was published I have discovered a number of facts which seem worthy of preservation.

1. As remarked, Hutton's edition of the ' Ladies' Diaries ' was published in five. volumes under the title ' Diarian Miscellany.' The date on the title-page of each com- pleted volume is 1775. This date is, how- ever, misleading, as portions of the mathe- matical volumes, at least, were published as early as 1771. The number of pages in each of Hutton's five volumes is as follows : I., 364 pp. ; II., 392 pp. ; III., 424 pp. ; IV., 396 pp. ; V., 364 pp. According to an edition in the British Museum, the first three volumes were issued in fourteen parts, of which the dates and pagination were : No. I., July, 1, 1771, pp. 1-60; No. IT.: Nov. 1, 1771. pp. 61-120 ; No. III., Feb. 1, 1772, pp. 121-80; No. IV., May 1, 1772, pp. 181-252 ; No. V., Aug. 1, 1772, pp. 253- 324 ; No. VI., Nov. 1, 1772, pp. 325-64 ; No. VII., March 1, 1773, pp. 1-140; No. VIII., July 1, 1773, pp. 141-248 ; No. IX., Nov. 1, 1773, pp. 249-392 ; No. X., March 1, 1774, pp. 1-72; No. XL, July 1, 1774. pp. 73-168 ; No. XII., Nov. 1, 1774, pp. 169- 288 ; No. XIII., March 1, 1775, pp. 289-372 ; No. XIV., July 1, 1775, pp. 373-424.

There are no covers bound in with Vols. IV. and V. of this British Museum copy, and I suspect (although I did not think to make the verification at the time I inspected the work) that the reason is that Vols.*IV.