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 us. ix., TAX. 24, 1911] NOTES AND QUERIES.

I remember that on of Jules Verne's books ' The Demon of Cawnpore ' ap- peared in a rival boys' journal, The Union Jack, published by Griffith, Farran & Co., 1880-1-2-3, edited by W. H. G. Kingston, and afterwards by the late G. H. Heiity.

G. WEST.

The following meagre notes may be of service to MB. P. H. LING : ' The Giant Raft ' appeared in The Boy's Own Paper, vol. iii. ; ' The Cryptogram ' (sequel to above) in The B.O.P., vol. iv., 1881-2. From the correspondence column I glean the following : ' The Giant Raft ' and * The " Cryptogram ' appeared in The B.O.P. contemporaneously with their first appear- ance in France. In 1884 Verne was de- scribed as " Author of ' The Boy Captain ' and ' Godfrejr Morgan,' ' which implies that these had already appeared in the same paper. J. PARSON.

PARISHES IN Two OR MORE COUNTIES (11 S. ix. 29). There is no book that deals thoroughly with detached parts of counties, but the Act 2 and 3 Will. IV., c. 64, sets out in a schedule a number of the portions of counties once isolated, and the Act 7 and 8 Viet., c. 61, gave power to do away with these anomalies. It is necessary to bear in mind that the subject of county detachments is, and has been for some years, in a state of transition. Many detachments have been abolished owing to Orders of the Local Government Board. Thus the " Walthamstow slip " which intersected the parish of Ley ton was transferred to Leyton by an Order in Council on 5 March, 1885. A search through The London Gazette during the last thirty years would give similar instances of transfer. Any good County Atlas of the eighteenth century gives with each map the isolated districts of various counties e.g., Bedford- shire, Berks, Bucks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucester, Hants, Hertford, Leicester, Northumberland, Oxford, Shrop- shire, Staffs, Somerset, Wilts, and Wor- cester. These are the best illustrations, and it is worth mentioning that Gloucester had detached parishes in three counties Berks, Wilts, and Worcester. It may at once be mentioned that the present Ordnance maps are of no use to answer an historical question about county boundaries, as these excellent maps are occasionally altered or corrected to meet the new conditions. I would, however, direct your correspondent to the series of ' ; County Geographies " now

being issued by the Cambridge University Press, and in several of these concise and carefully edited books will be found special sections on detached and isolated parts. From personal inspection, I would particu- larly note the following volumes in that series : ' Essex ' (p. 13), ' Kent ' (p. 9), ' Herts ' (p. 10), ' Berks ' (p. 14), ' Somerset ' (p. 9), ' Devon ' (p. 10), ' Derby " (p. 10), and ' Gloucester ' (p. 7).

One of the most noteworthy of such de- tached portions is the district of Xorth Woolwich, situated in the geographical county of Essex, which, after being con- sidered part of the ancient county of Kent for many centuries, was transferred to the county of London in 1888. A search through Bartholomew's ' Gazetteer,' 1904, would give a few similar instances. I will note two that are mentioned. Dudley is stated to be in " a detached section of Worcestershire," and Shipston-on-Stour "in a detached part of Worcestershire."

GEORGE F. BOSWORTH. Hillcote, Church Hill Road, Walthamstow.

It would be a good thing if correspondents would give notes in your columns of parishes thus situated, as I do not think there is any list of them. As a beginning, allow me to point out the parish of Sockburn as one of them, being partly in Durham county and partly in Yorkshire. Many years ago a new church about as poor a structure as well could be was erected on the Yorkshire side of the Tees at Girsby, and the interest- ing little Early English church on a tongue of land stretching into Yorkshire, and on a very ancient site, was allowed to tumble to ruin. The proprietor of the neighbouring house in which is or used to be preserved the " Conyers falchion " a year or two ago roofed over a side-chapel in the ruins, and in it placed all the pre-Conquest cross fragments and other early stones. A public road runs down the strip of land to a ford across the river. R. B R.

South Shields.

WORDS AND PHRASES IN ' LORNA DOONE ' (11 S. viii. 427, 514; ix. 15). 1. With the article ' Soap ' in the ' X.E.D.' to guide me ) I conjecture that " stinging soap " means common, soft, black, strongly alkaline soap, the opposite of " sweet soap."

2. I should certainly take " capias " to mean a recipe in cooking. Is the word used in medicine ?

8. ' Hind and the Panther,' ii. 654-62. Christie's note is not quite correct if Mac- aulay's account may be trusted. The battle