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very carefull, daring and faithfull. for they have much to doe with Invention, more with mis- chances, and most of all with perills and dangers : As for their Trust it is so great that the very health and safety of Armies lye continually in their fingers.

Both these Officers hvae their dependance upon the Master of the Ordnance, and are to attend his directions in all occurrents and occasions whatso- ever, therefore it is fit they be still neere unto his person, and that' whatsoever proceedeth from him they see presently performed with faithfulnes and diligence.

The meaning of the obsolete terms which occur in the above account will be treated in a separate communication, as will also the subject of Master -Gunners in. the Royal Navy. J. H. LESLIE.

A recent poetical use of the word may be recalled :

He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried : Three hundred mile of cannon spoke When the Master-gunner died.

' Lord Roberts,' by Rudyard Kipling,

which first appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Nov. 10, 1914, and has been re-published in ' Rudyard Kipling's Verse,' 1919, vol 1, p. 270. . ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S IN MOOR LANE : "COPY" (12 S. vi. 231). This church, needlessly demolished in 1904. "was in- tended by its builder Cockerell to be an exact imitation " of Wren's church of St. Bartholomsw-the-little-by-the-Exchangev?'c?e ' Notes on old London City Churches,' by C. W. Pearce, p. 172. As a matter of fact much of the masonry of the old church was used and the pulpit, organ, and a great deal of the carved woodwork transferred when the prototype church was pulled down in 1840 to widen Bartholomew Lane as an approach to the then rebuilt Royal Ex- change. The Sun Fire office occupies part of the site. For useful illustrations vide Gent's Mag., vol. xiii., Mav, 1840, and The Literary World, May 16, 1840.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

Harben in his ' Dictionary of London ' states that St. Bartholomew's-by-the-Ex- change was taken clown 1840-1 to make room for the Royal Exchange, and the materials sold by auction in 1841. Some of the carved masonry, the old pulpit, organ, &.G., were preserved in the church erected 1849-50 in Moor Lane, in the style of

St. Bartholomew's-by-the-Exchange. The new church was consecrated in April, 1850, and the tower was a facsimile of the old one. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

I used to worship in that church, and> always xmderstood that it was "St. Bar- tholomew's-by-the-Exchange" driginally, and^ had been transplanted to Moor Lane when some alterations were made in the city; rebuilt with the old materials and internal- fittings. J- T - F.

Winterton, Lines.

The following is from The Observer of May 23 :

Early in the forties St. Bartholomew Exchange,- whose site is partly absorbed in Broad Street and Threadneedle Street, was taken down and rebuilt- in Moor Lane, Finsbury. Unfortunately it was one of the least interesting of Wren's churches* and not improved by its transportation, as much of the enriched plasterwork was replaced with, plain surfaces and the interior is now bald and- uninteresting.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH (12 S. vi. 230). Four-fifths of the population of Australia are inhabitants of the coastal cities, and these speak of the whole interior of the Con- tinent as " the bush." The dwellers in the agricultural districts immediately behind the coast speak of the district further inland as "the back country." Those in the back country have behind them a land partly unknown, which they call the Never- never Land." As therefore the bush is a general term for the whole interior of tne^ country, it is manifest that its vegetation, has many aspects which cannot be enu- merated in a brief reply. It has often been, declared that the distinctive character < the bush is its monotony. One ol aspects is that of flat or gently undu- lating land, covered with grass, dotted with trees nearly all belonging to the same family, and presenting a uniform dart green hue to the eye, extending for hundreds, of miles. The rees are not so close togetne as to prevent the grass from flourishing o the plain beneath, and there is little or no undergrowth. This is a common aspect. There are Australians to whom the recalls the picture of rushing mountain streams of cold clear water. The banks a carpeted with maidenhair and coral There are wastes of sand hummocks, on which grows nothing but the stiff spmites grass, an unfailing sign of barren land, xnat country is dreary and monotonous beyoi