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NOTES AND Q UERIES. ni s. iv. A DG. 12, 1911..

An excellent little map of the Colne river shows where the new cut is to be made between Rickmansworth and Watford, the stream going north of Hillingdon ; anc a woodblock on the title-page shows th Thames and London, with the Westbourne crossing " Hid. P." (Hyde Park), and the Fleet passing just east of " Mar. P." (Ma lebone Park), but not Forde's new river entering St. Giles-in-t he-Fields.

Apparently the scheme, which the politica disturbances of the days crushed, was not revived at the Restoration. Nothing further is heard of it, but in 1828 John Martin in his ' Plan for supplying Pure Water to London,' &c., made use of at least part of the idea, as he proposed to bring the river Colne from near Denham and Uxbridge, by tunnel and aqueduct through Northolt and Honington Hill, to a reservoir at Paddington. For the greater part of its length this would run by the side of the Grand Junction Canal. I have not ascertained if Martin endeavoured to obtain the necessary capital and power. I am afraid the fact that he sought to make his river beautiful by waterfalls and cascades was too much for that utilitarian age. Robert Stephenson in his Report on the London and Westminster Water Company (1840) refers to this proposal of "Mr. Martin the artist," and supports a scheme which apparently Telford, Paton, and others had advanced, of drawing water from the Colne or wells in the neighbourhood of Watford.

But I need not discuss these many rami- fications of Edward Forde's excellent idea. Unless I am much at fault, this pamphlet was not known to J. Parton, who has no reference to it in his excellent volume on St. Giles-in-the-Fields.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

QUOTATIONS IN JEREMY TAYLOR. (See 11 S. i. 466 ; ii. 65 ; iii. 122.)

VOL. IV. (C. P. Eden's edition, 1848), p. 195, " They are like the tigers of Brazil. . . ." - At iii. 122 a passage was quoted from Purchas's ' Pilgrimage,' but Taylor would seem to have taken the illustration from Nic. Caussin's ' Polyhistor Symbolicus,' lib. vii. cap. iii., " Tigres Brasiliae." The Frenchman's moral application is the same as Taylor's. They both quote yao-re/jes dpyal and the words from Clement of Alexandria, \/a'x>7 xdOvypos. .

. Taylor seems to have been indebted on several occasions to Caussinus' s 'Poly- histor.' Cp. iv. 194, "Intemperance is the- nurse of vice ; 'A^o&V^s yaAa, ' Venus" milk,' so Aristophanes calls wine ; Trdvrw Beiv&v fJLrjTpoiroXis, ' the mother of all grievous things,' so Pontianus," with i. 34 of the ' Polyhistor,' where Caussin uses the words " Vinum immodicum, fomes libidinis," and quotes the same Greek phrases of Aristo- phanes and Pontianus side by side. Eden points out their source, successive chapters of Athenseus, but gives no reference here to Caussin.

IV. p. 241, " Ordo fuit crevisse malis." This is found more than once in the ' Poly- histor.' See v. 61 and x. 14.

IV. p. 263, " When the Boeotians asked the-

oracle "The idea (iii. 123) that Taylor

may have read this in Schott's ' Adagia ' cannot stand, as the words ao-e/^jo-avras er Trpdgeir are not used by Zenobius. These three Greek words are quoted by Caussinus- when telling the story in 'Polyhistor,' v. 21. He gives a marginal reference to Strabo, lib. 8 [sic, ' Polyhist.,' ed. 1631,. p. 206 : the passage in Strabo is in lib. 9 p. 616C in ed. 1707]. Taylor makes the Boeotians throw the priestess into the sea instead of in rogum (els -rrvpdv}. In the 1848 ed. of vol. iv. Eden supplies no refer- ence. The index volume of 1854 gives this page under Strabo, but not under Caussinus- Conversely iv. 259 (" Quae fuerat fabula pcena fuit ") is referred to under Caussinus, who quotes the words in ' Polyhistor,.' iv. 51, but not under Martial. The fact that Eden's index refers not to the original, but to a later issue of the other volumes, is hidden away in small print at the foot of p. cccxxxi of vol. i. I was unable to find this later issue with its " few trifling corrections "
 * n the Bodleian.

Vol. IX. p. xvii. " Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri." This is from Manilius .ii. 39.

Vol. IX. p. 254, noteb, " Lib. vi.. apophth." This reference for the story of the cuckoo

and the other birds in Plutarch seems to lave puzzled Eden, who appends a reference

to Plutarch's life of Aratus with a query.

The explanation of Taylor's marginal note s that he took the story from Erasmus's- Apophthegmata,' where it is found at ,he very end of bk. vi. Erasmus took itr rom the life of Aratus.

EDWARD BENSLY.