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 las. VIET. FEB. ao, 1021.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 177 -roost imposing memorial is the bronze statue by Woollier in Hyde Park, Sydney, anveiled by Sir Hercules Robinson when < Governor of Xew South Wales. At Chalfoiit St. Giles, Bucks, Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, .a great friend of Cook's, erected a brick building with a pedestal in front of it "To Captain James Cook, the ablest and most renowned navigator this or any other country hath produced." Lastly, there is an obelisk in Owhyhee, erected by Lord Byron and the officers of the Blonde on the -pot where Cook's body was burned. It is .a cross of oak ten feet in height with this inscription .: Sacred to the Memory of Captain James Cook, R.N., who discovered these islands in the year of our Lord 1778. This humble monument is erected by his Countrymen in the year of our "Lord 1825. WILLOUGHBV MAYCOCK. THE OLD HORSE GUARDS BUILDINGS 12 S. vii. 232, 258; viii. 58). The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelli- gencer, vol. xxiii., February. 1754, published .an engraving of ' The New Buildings for the Horse Guards ' with the following paragraph ii the opposite page : "The apartments for the Horse Guards at the entrance of S 1 James's Park, over against the .Banqueting House, Whitehall, having been lately rebiiilt in an elegant and grand manner, we have thought tir, to present our readers with a per spective VIEW oi the same, as hereto annexed." J. R. H. SCOTT'S 'LEGEND OF MONTRQSE ' (12 S viii. 129). 4. Mr. H. F. Morland Simpson in his edition (Cambridge, 1896) notes tha iro, pt. 1, p. 65, of his ' Expedition ' "commences his 'Sixteenth Observation 'with th words : ' when cannons are and bullet Hying, he that would have honour must not fear ( l.yi'>g', perhaps an accidental jingle, which caugh Scott's ear," According to this Scott would have ad i^trd the words to form the first two lines which differ in chap. vi. and xii., and adde thf two others quoted in the latter chapter. T>. In the edition by Mr. V. Keith Leas ..1 '.)!>:}) these lines are said to have bee attributed on good authority to Capt Whoever made them, there is muc by in their form, due picsum.-.bly t .nisi nis^ion. The version which Scot in the "Highland Widow,' chc,p. i., not the same, as that in the ' Legend of Montrose,' and neither of these agrees with the quotation in the ' D.N.B.' life of Wacle. EDWARD BENSLY. THE SENTRY AT POMPEII (12 S. viii. 131). The story has somehow attached itself to the tomb of Marcus Cerriiiius Restitutus, just outside the Porta Ercolanese. A. J. C. Hare gives it, with two mistakes in the jelling of Cerriiiius, on p. 212 of his ' Cities f Southern Italy and Sicily' (1883), where le speaks of a vaulted niche, in which the fully-armed skeleton
 * a soldier was found. He was evidently on

uard at the neighbouring gate, and. faithful to is trust, only took shelter here from the burning lower, whilst his fellow citizens were escaping. But the greatest authority on Pompeii in lis day, the late Prof. August Mau, w r ho was responsible for the account of Pompeii n Baedeker's ' Unter-Italien und Sizilien,' leclarecl, p. 148, 13th eel., that the legend, ike so many stories about Pompeii, was an nvention. The ill-informed are still called on at imes to believe that the town was over- whelmed by a stream of lava ! EDWARD BENSLY. In 1865 the late Sir Edward Poynter, afterwards P.R.A., exhibited in the R.A. a painting called ' Faithful unto Death,.' which is now in the Walker Gallery at Liver- pool, representing a Roman soldier in full irmour, awaiting his fate at his post, amid the dead and dying. Marc Monnier, * Pom- pei et les Pompeiens ' ( ' Tour du Monde,' 1864) at pp. 415, 416, as reported by W. H. Davenport Adams, ' Pompeii and Hercu- laneum ' (1881), at pp. 268, 271, says : "In 1863, under a mass of ruin, the excavators discovered an empty space, at whose bottom some bones were discernible. They immediately sum- moned M. Fiorelli to the spot, -who conceived a felicitous idea. He caused some plaster to be poured while liquid into the hole, and the same operation was renewed at other points where similar bones were thought to.be visible. After- wards the crust of pumice-stone and hard ashes, which enveloped, as in a shroud, the*e objects, having been carefully removed, before the eye were revealed the skeletons of four human corpses. You may see them now in the Museum at Naples.* The fourth body is that of a man of uigantic stature. He has filing himself on his back to die bravely ; his arms and legs are straight and im- movable. His clothes are very sharply defined, the tunic which once was new arid brilliant, the sandals (*<>/< a <) laced to the feet, with the iron .They are not now at Naples, but in the Museum at Pompeii. J. B. W.