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some months to be rainy, others to be dry, and others to be half rainy and half dry, according to their representative beans having become charred black, cinerated whitish, or partly black and partly whitish. Will some one kindly tell me whether these modes of prognosticating dry or wet weather for each month have been recorded from any countries other than Japan and China ?

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

GEORGE INMAN. Can any reader help me by sending to me direct information concerning the descendants of George Inman, \vho matriculated as a Sizar of Clare College on 18 Dec., 1728, and who was admitted to the degree of B.A. in 1741 ? It is desired to trace his parentage.

(Mrs.) H. CASTELL DAMANT. Lammas, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

" KIBOB " : DERIVATION WANTED. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me whence kibob is derived ? I can only find it in Birch's edition of Wilkinson's ' Egyptians ' in the sense of " a rasher of meat, bacon, &c." Has kibob any Hindustani congeners ?

CECIL OWEN.

Perth, W.A.

FRENCH VERGE WATCH. Can some corre- spondent inform me of the approximate date of an old French verge w r atch which I believe to be a very early specimen ? On the watch is inscribed " Orsat a Parie," and on the silver-gilt case is inscribed " D. C.," with a flower underneath.

HELLIER GOSSELIN.

St. Pancras, Lewes.

GOTHAVEN. - - In R. Kipling's ' Last Chantey' ('The Seven Seas,' 1896) occurs the phrase " a grey Gothav'n 'speckshioner." Will some one kindly inform me (1) Where and what is Gothaveri ? I have tried every accessible atlas and gazetteer. (2) What is the connexion of such an inspector with the Dundee whaling fleet ?

H. K. ST. J. SANDERSON.

Ashfield, Bedford.

KITCHIN : PARRY: CASSON : HARWOOD- I am endeavouring to trace back the genealogy of certain families of the above names, and should be most grateful for assistance. I can get no further than ( 1 ) William Kitchin of Drigg, in Cumberland, wife's name Sarah. He is believed to have died 19 Sept., 1814, and was a builder, very cunning at building bridges. The father of Rev. Isaac Kitchin of St. Stephen's, Ipswich.

(2) John Orlando Parry, actor and musical entertainer, 1810-79 (see ' D.N.B.'). Rela- tives of his state that he traced the family pedigree back to Cadwalader Vendigaid, but none of them knows in whose hands the pedi- gree now is. The family is of North Wales.

(3) John Cassori of Field House (a private lunatic asylum of which he was medical man in charge), Arilaby, near Hull.

(4) John Harwood of Newmarket, father of Sir Busick Harwood, the Professor of Anatomy in Cambridge University.

PARRY KITCHIN. 64, Elm Grove, Peck ham S.E.

RYE CHURCH FONT. Can any reader say what became of the old font formerly in Rye- Church, Sussex ? The present one is a copy of the early Norman font in Newenden Church, Kent, and was placed in the church- about 1845.

Failing the whereabouts of the old font, I should like to know where an illustration of it may be seen. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

62, kelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

AUTHORS WANTED. Can some one kindly give the author's name, with a reference to- the place in his works where they occur, of the following lines, which I quote, perhaps wrongly, from memory ?

I hate the black negation of the bier, And would the dead, as holier than ourselves, And happier, having climbed (? passed) beyond Our village miseries, were borne in white To burial or to burning.

A. MARSHALL Box. 14, Magrath Avenue, Cambridge.

The following lines, quoted in a recent novel, are carved on an old seat in a country garden. Can any reader throw light upon their origin ?

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth ;

You are nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

H. T,

I should be much obliged if any of your correspondents could tell me who are the authors of the following- works :

1. "A Young | Englishman's | First Residence |

in Jamaica | by a Widow | Ash ton : I Printed by

G. Orme, Stamford Street | 1&36." 1 vol. (7x4 in. cut), pp. 36. Introduction (p. 4) signed " M. R."

2. "Gems of Literature | being a Selection | of

Prose and Poetry | by a Lady. | London : |

Hamilton, Adams', & Co 1836." 1 vol. (5f x3in.

cut). Preface (p. vi) signed "M. R." and dated "July 23rd, 1834."

HUGH S. GLADSTONE. Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.