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It may be remarked that the P.B. version is defective in another respect. It should read, as given in the A.V. and R.V., thy (not "the") water-pipes or water-spouts. The original appears to be metaphorical language derived from the character of the surrounding country. Hebraists supply as a better rendering of the passage " Deep calleth unto deep in the roar of Thy cataracts.' F. A. RUSSELL.

116 Arran Road, Catford, S.E.6.

DESSIN'S HOTEL, CALAIS (12 S. iv. 187, 248 ; v. 20). T. F. D. says that he did not discover the name of the hotel in which Sterne stayed at Calais until he came across it in the recently published memoirs of William Hickey. I presume, therefore, that he is unaware that M. Dessin, the proprietor of the Silver Lion, advertised his hotel in English newspapers some years before the publication of ' A Sentimental Journey.' T. F. D. may be interested in the follow- ing announcement, which I found in The St. James's Chronicle, Oct. 11-13, 1763:

"Dessin, who keeps the Silver Lion at Calais, offers his service to the Nobility, Gentry & others, who may please to honour him with their Company, where they will be sure of meeting with the best Entertainment & Lodging. He also provides Chaises <fc all other kinds of Carriages, & has a Correspondence in all Parts for the convenience of Travellers, & executed with the greatest fidelity."

WILLIAM T. WHITLEY.

SIB WALTER RALEIGH, EAST LONDONER (12 S. iv. 296 ; v. 15). On June 19, 1877, I visited the Artichoke Tavern, Blackwall, in the company of a friend who had called there respecting some arrangements relating to a forthcoming Thames regatta. As we came out he pointed to an old house close by, and said : " That is where Sir Walter Raleigh smoked his first pipe in England." I made a note in my diary at the time, though I doubted the information as to the pipe. Still, it may very well have been the house so graphically described by the " Poplar antiquary," and concerning which MR. PHILIP NORMAN desires information.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itohington, Warwickshire.

In the too slowly increasing collection of local curios exhibited in the Poplar Borough Library in the High Street there is a copy of the view possessed by MR. PHILIP NORMAN. The local antiquaries were supported by most of the West London specialists in 1873 in the verdict that the neglected house

which, according to tradition, was succes- sively occupied by Sebastian Cabot and Walter Raleigh, showed little trace of its origin, except perhaps in the piles upon which it was upraised ; and uncouth hands had dealt grievously with its " restoration " more than once, assisted by too zealous job- lot sellers from neighbouring marine stores. It was swept away to make room for the approach to the new Blackwall Tunnel ; and all that remains is a new place-name which indicates acceptance of the tradition by the - London County Council. Me.

Me. seems to suggest (iv. 296) that Raleigh was the author of the phrase " to singe the Spaniard's beard." But was it not Sir Francis Drake who uttered the famous boast, and in slightly different words ? Froude in his * English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century ' says :

41 On the 19th [April] he [Drake! entered Cadiz Harbour ; on the 1st of May he passed out again without the loss of a boat or a man. He said in jest that he had singed the King of Spain's beard for him."

J. R. H.

LAKES PASCHOLLER AND CALENDARI, NEAR THUSIS (12 S. v. 13). For " Flerda " read Flerden, to the west of Thusis. To its west, on the " Heinzenberg," is the Pas- cuminersee, just to the south of the Pas- cholen pastures.

The " Caltmdari lake " is to the west of Andeer, which by the Spliigen Pass road

7 miles above Thusis. Thusis is at the northern mouth of the Via Mala, while Andeer is some way south of its southern end. W. A. B. C.

Grindelwald.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANCESTORS (12 S. iv. 298). A paragraph in The Daily Chronicle of Jan. 11 stated that particulars were forwarded recently to President Wilson by Mr. John Muir, of Beith, Ayrshire, respect- ing the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, formerly parish minister of Beith, a grand -uncle of the President, and a lineal descendant of John Knox. N. W. HILL.

FORSTER OF HANSLOPE (12 S. iv. 158). MR. BARTON is referred to 11 S. viii. 518 (Paulet) ; to Thomas Salt's 'Materials for a History of Staffordshire ' (Leveson) ; to the Harleian Society's publications of ' Visita- tion of Staffordshire,' 1663-4, p. 202, and ' Visitation of Worcestershire,' -1682 (Leve- son) ; and to ' Appendix to Hardwicke and d'Aubigny,' pp. 6 and 7 (Brit. Mus. Addit.. MSS. Dept. 37940). OYEZ.