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author " her much endeared Friend, spiritual Father, Pastor, and Brother, in the Fellowship of the Gospel, and Preacher of the Word at Margarets New Fish-street " has this passage on p. 31 of the third edition of his book, printed in London in 1661 :

" There are three Heavens ; the first is Ccclum Aeriutn, the Aiery Heaven, where the Fowls of Heaven do five ; the second is Cesium Astriferum, where the stars of Heaven are ; and the third is Cwlum Beatorum, the Heaven of the Blessed, where God appears in eminency, and where Christ shines in glory."

In his long discourse of 222 pages the preacher frequently gives references in the margin to various Fathers for his quotations, but there is none in this place. I should be pleased to learn from whom he has taken the Latin words in the above passage.

JOHN T. CUBBY.

DOG'S MONUMENT AT QUILON. Can any reader tell me who was the hero of the follow- ing interesting dog story, narrated by Sir William Butler (' Autobiography,' p. 48) apropos of his visit to Quilon on the Malabar Coast in May, 1863 ?

" A mile before making the landing-place? we came on one of the many mimic promontories rising from the water which has a stone monu- ment built upon it. It has a history. Many years ago a certain Col. Gordon was resident at Quilon. He w,s the owner of a large Newfound

land dog. One morning Gordon was bathing in the lake off this promontory ; the dog lay by his master's clothes on the shore. Suddenly he

began to bark in a most violent manner. Gordon, unable to see any cause for the animal's excite- ment, continued to swim in the deep water. The dog became more violently excited, running down to the water's edge at one particular point. Looking in the direction to which the animal's attention was drawn, the swimmer thought that he could perceive a circular ripple moving the otherwise smooth surface of the lake. Making for the shore, he soon perceived that the ripple was caused by some large body moving stealthily under the water. He guessed at once the whole situation : a very large crocodile was swimming well below the surface, and making in his direc- tion. The huge reptile was already partly between him and the shore. The dog knew it all. Suddenly he ceased barking, plunged into the water, and headed in an oblique line so as to intercept the moving ripple. All at once he disappeared from the sxirface, dragged down by the huge beast beneath. When the dog found that all his efforts to alarm his master were use- less, he determined to give his own life to save the man's, and so Col. Gordon built the monument on the rock above the scene, and planted the casarina tree to shadow it."

Mr. O. S. Barrow, Lay Trustee of the English Church at Quilon, tells me that he has often made inquiries by whom the monu

ment, which has no inscription and stands in the grounds of the Thevally Palace, was erected. The church registers give no clue, but the burial register at Alleppey, which is 50 miles by water from Quilon, notes the deaths of two children of Capt. Robert Gordon, Bombay Engineers, in 1823 and 1825. This officer, who was a son of the Rev. Ludovick Gordon, minister of Drainie, and grandfather of Mr. Charles Stewart Loch of the Charity Organisation Society, died at Bombay in 1834. J. M. BULLOCH.

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BBISBANE FAMILY. I am compiling a genealogy of those branches of this family that descend from the issue of John Brisbane of Bishoptoun by his second wife, Margaret (or Elizabeth ?), daughter of John Hamilton of Broomhill in Lanarkshire.

William Frazer in his ' Genealogical Table of the Families of Brisbane of Bishop- toun and Brisbane,' &c., published at Edin- burgh in 1840, mentions only one son, the Rev. William Brisbane, Minister of Erskine, who was ordained in 1603 and died circa 1642, in all of whose descendants I am especially interested, and I shall be glad of information concerning their line of descent. The South Carolina family of Brisbane, it is believed, belong to this branch.

In a memorial of the family drawn up on the 16th of August, 1748, by George Craw- ford, Esq., " Historiographer and Anti- quarian," at Glasgow, he says :

" There came of the family of Brisbane of Bishopton many cadets that were' younger brothers of the house of Brisbane, as the Bris- banes of Barnhill and Silverland, shire of Renfrew ....The Brisbanes of Roslyn [Rossland ?] in the sonship, who were descended of Mathew Brisbane, eldest son of John Brisbane of Bishopton in King James VI. 's time by his second lady, Margaret [Frazer's ' Table ' gives Eliza- beth], daughter and one of the three coheiresses

of David Hamilton, &c Of the same

marriage was Mr. William Brisbane, parson of Erskine, of whom descended Dr. Mathew Brisbane, physician in Glasgow. Another son of Mathew Brisbane of Roslyn was Sir John Brisbane, Advocate in the Royal Navy in the reign of Charles II., grandfather to the present [1748] Lord Napier ; and of another son of Mathew Brisbane, the first Laird of Roslyn, James Brisbane, came Mr. James Brisbane, minister at Kilmalcolm, afterwards at Sterling, and other gentlemen of the surname of Brisbane,' &c.

I have transcribed the foregoing from a manuscript copy of the memorial, and it may possibly be worded differently from the original. It shows, however, that there was at least one other son of John