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AN EARLY MAP OF IRELAND (US. ix. 208 254). Robert Morden was a well-known geographer, and flourished between 1 668 and 1703. See an account of him in the ' D.N.B. I suspect that the eighth line of this inquiry should read " Abel Swale, Awnsham anc John Churchill," for Awnsham and his brother John Churchill were eminent pub- lishers, booksellers, and stationers in Pater- noster Ro\v. The former died in 1728. See also the 'D.N.B.' Of Swale I know nothing. The map MR. Dow mentions is probably out of Camden's ' Britannia,' 1695 or Cox's ' Magna Britannia,' 1720-33, the maps for both of which works were, believe, originally engraved by Morden.

E. A. FRY.

According to the ' D.N.B.' Robert Morden commenced business about 1668 and died in 1703. The ' New Map of Ireland,' by him- self and J. Overton, is assigned to "about 1680," and was used at least twice among maps accompanying later books, such as the reissue of Camden's ' Britannia.'

L. L. K.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S ix. 231). I copied the following lines from Lord Palmerston's commonplace book, still preserved at Broadlands, Romsey : A single doctor like a sculler plies, The patient lingers, and then slowly dies ; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft you more swiftly to the Stygian shores.

The author's name was not given.

G. W. E. RUSSELL.

The epigram about which MR. HARM AN inquires is given (but without any author's name) at p. 144 in ' Epigrams Ancient and Modern,' &c., edited by the Rev. John Booth of Cambridge (London, Longmans, 1863). It reads :

A single doctor like a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries ; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores.

L. A. W.

Dublin.

The epigram referred to by MR. HARMAN can scarcely be correctly given, and I have always heard it rendered :

One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies ; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores. I believe the author was Dr. Garth.

W. Louis KING. Paddock Wood, Kent.

"COUSINS AND HALF -COUSINS " (US. ix.

208). As a native of Hull I have always understood the word " half -cousins " in this connexion to refer to the children of the speaker's or writer's first cousins.

RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

In North Lincolnshire I have heard middle-class people refer to the children of their first cousins as " half -cousins " or "second cousins." Considerable confusion seems to exist in the use of phrases denoting degrees of cousinship. J. P.

PALMER'S ROYAL MAILS (US. ix. 209). In addition to his other avocations Mr. PaJmer was manager of the Bath Theatre, then the most profitable establishment of the kind out of London. In 1776 he was succeeded by his son, John Palmer the younger, who held the theatre until his death in 1818, and was then succeeded by his son Charles Palmer, who was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford. Both the son and grandson sat in Parliament.

WM. DOUGLAS. 125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill, S.W.

GLADSTONE'S INVOLVED SENTENCES (US. ix. 190). By twenty years I anticipated the query of MR. F. C. WHITE. In my ' Early Public Life of William Ewart Glad- stone,' published in 1894, I devoted two pages (144-5) to a theory concerning the origin of his involved oratorical style, show- ing it to have been " an hereditary instinct, not an acquired power." Such reports as remain of the speeches on affairs of his father, " Mr. Gladstone of Liverpool," friend and supporter of Canning and Hus- kisson, can be quoted in aid of this theory. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

PARISHES IN Two OR MORE COUNTIES (11 S. ix. 29, 75, 132, 210). If North Wool- wich was a detached part of Kent before 1889 it must be a detached part of the County of London now, and the Commis- sioners under the London Government Act (1899) who were charged with the duty of getting rid of all detached parts strangely overlooked this one case. It is only cor- rect, however, to describe North Woolwich as detached if it be correct to describe a peninsula as an island.

Similarly, if it be correct to describe Venetia as "in the geographical area of Austria," and to quote it as an analogous case to Poland (a " country in two or more empires "), then it is correct to describe