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1842 (p. 347), says that the terrace was built in 1799, but a noble continuation was formed in 1834 on part of the land occupied by Mr. James Rhodes, the large dairy-farmer. See also Thomas Cromwell's 'Walks through Islington,' 1835, p. 172, where it is further said that Rhodes's "concern " was for many years

" carried on by the family of Pullin, from whom Pullin's Row, facing the High Street, derives its name.. ... Much land in the parish is rented by Mr. Rhodes ; and its abundant produce was long seen in the large hay-stacks annually formed on that part of his premises which adjoins the south end of Colebrooke Terrace ; but many acres have been of late years converted into brick-fields."

Harvey and Haile, the gentleman alluded to says, were the successors of Rhodes, and the old farm bailiffs cottage, I was told, still stands in Duncan Street, on the left-hand side. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

"CoND" (9 th S. x. 126, 235). In the useful 'Lexicon Technicum' of Dr. John Harris, F.R.S., &c. (my edition the second dated 1708, bears the sub-title of 'An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences '), I find the word cond thus explained :

" Cond or Conn, in the sea phrase, is to guide or conduct the ship in her right course : He that conns stands aloft with a compass before him, and gives the word of direction to the Man at Helm how to steer. If the ship go before the wind, or, as they call it, betwixt the sheets, then the Word is Starboard or Port the Helm (according as the Conder would have the Helm put to the Right or Left Side of the Ship), and then the ship will always go the contrary way. If he say Helm a Mid-ship, he would have the ship go right before the wind, or directly between her two Sheets. If the ship sail by a Wind, or on a Quarter Wind, the Word is A-looff! Keep your Luff ! fall not off! vere no more ! Keep her to ! touch the Wind ! have a cam of the Lee-Latch ! All which Expressions are of the same import, and only imply that the Steersman should keep the Ship near the Wind. On the contrary, if he would have her sail more large, or more before the Wind, the Word is Ease the ffelm ! no near ! bear up ! But if he cries Steady ! it means no more than Keep her from going in and out, of(making Yaws (as they call it), howso- ever she sails, whether large or by a Wind ; and when he would have her go just as she doth, he cries, Keep her thus ! thus, &c. "

G. YARROW BALDOCK. South Hackney, N.E.

THE IRON DUKE AND THE DUKE OF WEL- LINGTON (9 th S. ix. 466; x. 11, 73, 156, 172). I have a copy of Lloyffs Register of British and Foreign Shipping from 1 July, 1840, to 30 June, 1841, being the sixth year after " Lloyd's " was established. In the Supple- ment to this volume is an entry showing that a barque named the Iron Duke, Master R. Jeffares, of 362 tons old measurement and

394 tons new measurement (i.e., from 1 Jan., 1836), built at Glasgow, 5th month (May), 1840, for Hatrick & Co., of Waterford (or it may be Hatrick & Waterford), of iron, intended to sail from the Clyde to Calcutta, surveyed and passed 6th month (June) of same year.

Under the name Duke of Wellington four vessels are entered a steamer of 335 tons, a sloop of 39 tons, a brig of 215 tons, and a schooner of 90 tons. The steamer was not of iron, but wood. It was built at Aberdeen in 1829, was owned by the "A. and L. St. C." (which probably means the Aberdeen and London Steamship Company), and traded between the two cities.

These extracts may not be of great value, but they appear to prove two things namely, (1) that an iron sailing barque was built at Glasgow in the spring of 1840 to which was given the name of Iron Duke, and that no other vessel of that name was entered during the year or appeared as existing from a previous year ; (2r that no iron- steamer named Duke of Wellington was known to "Lloyd's "at that date.

RICHARD WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

There can be no doubt that the Duke of Wellington was commonly called "The Iron Duke " in his lifetime. I remember well, on the day when the news of his death reached Shrewsbury, I was standing on the wall of the playground of my school, when my father, passing up the road, told me the news, upon which I called out to my schoolfellows, " The Iron Duke is dead." E. W.

have not had an opportunity of consulting the work, but I got the reference from the notice of the Duke in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' EDMUND J. D. ROUND.

My memory assures me that Wellington was often referred to as " The Iron Duke " during his lifetime, and that I read some- where in bygone years that the sobriquet came of his having had iron shutters put up at Apsley House to protect the windows in some time of political disturbance. I do not mention this because I am satisfied with the explanation. ST. SWITHIN.

The Duke of Wellington was called "The Iron Duke" in Punch before 1850. In the beginning of vol. xiv. of Punch that is, in the beginning of the year 1848 in an article headed ' The Duke's Grammar,' the following