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sons and two daughters ; the second son, Philip, appears not to have married, but the elder, another Sir Walter, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Rogers, by whom he had one son, Carew, d.s.p., and four daughters (see Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. ii. pp. 155-6).

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge.

Burke, in his ' Extinct Baronetage,' p. 253, states that Sir John Hawkins had an only son, Sir Richard Hawkins, and that a pedi- gree of William Hawkins, of Plymouth, " descendant and heir of the great Admiral," will be found in Prince's ' Worthies.' For the birthplace and parentage of Sir Martin Frobisher see 6 th S. iii. 311. The follow- ing works may also be consulted with advantage : ' The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher, Kt., containing a Narrative of the Spanish Armada,' by the Rev. Frank Jones, B.A. (Longmans, 1878) ; ' Sir Martin Frobisher, Kt. : the Armada Tercentenary,' by W. H. K. Wright ; Western Antiquary, vol. viii.

Some particulars of the descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh are given in 1 st S. v., viii. ; 4 th S. ii., v., vi. Sir Bernard Burke, in a paper on ' The Extinction of the Families of Illus- trious Men,' says "that the descendants of Sir Carew (Sir Walter's grandson), in the male line, are either extinct or so sunk in position as to be untraceable."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"GALLEY": "GALEODE" (8 th S. ix. 407). As no reply has appeared, perhaps I may be allowed to answer my own question. A letter which I have from Mr. Claude Delaval Cobham, Commissioner of Larnaca (Cyprus), says :

"The 'galeode' (fully described in the ' Encyc. Brit.') is unknown in Cyprus. Mariti's 'galera' (galley) is the centipede, Scolopendra morsitans, common enough here (in Cyprus). We have plenty of tarantulas, but I cannot hear of them doing any harm."

In my query I quoted a passage from the anonymous English translation of the Abbe Giovanni Mariti's ' Viaggi per 1' Isola di Cipro.' In that passage the galley is said to be one and a half feet long. I take the following from Mr. Cobham's translation of the ' Travels in Cyprus ' of Mariti (Nicosia, Herbert E. Clarke, 1895), chap. i. p. 19 :-^

" The Tarantola of Cyprus is a spider of dark hue inclining to black, all covered with long hairs. Its bite is very dangerous, but not mortal ; it never fails to cause pains accompanied by fever. That of the Galera is poisonous and mortal. This is a narrow beast, flat, about six inches long, of a

yellowish hue, and furnished with a quantity of legs which it moves all together like the oars of a galley, whence it takes its name."

In his preface, speaking of the anonymous versions of Mariti in French (Paris, 1791) and English (London, 1791), Mr. Cobham says :

"The French translator scarcely pretends to follow Mariti's text, and tries to cover the bareness of his author's narrative with purple patches of his own, impertinent or superfluous. The Englishman renders literally from th Frenchman, without a hint that he has never seen the Italian original."

I suppose that the eighteen-inch length of the galley, instead of the original six-inch length, is the Englishman's rendering of one of the Frenchman's " purple patches."

The following extract is from 'Stemmata Latinitatis,' by Nicholas Salmon (London, 1796), vol. ii. p. 490 :

"Scolopendra a venomous insect (eight feet

long, with a peaked tail), sort of centipede."

Probably " feet " ought to be " inches."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

EDWARD MOORE :* JAMES MOORE ,(9 th S. x. 226, 291). "A New Theatrical Dictionary. Printed for S. Bladon. London, 1793," gives :

" Gil Bias. Comedy by Edward Moore. Acted at Drury-Lane, 1751. . This is by much the least meri- torious of the three dramatic pieces of our author, and indeed, notwithstanding its being very strongly supported in the acting, met with the least success."

F. R. R.

SLEDGES (9 th S. x. 188). Huge blocks of marble some weighing twenty tons, and maybe more can be seen, almost daily, in Carrara, and Marina its port, in the act of being moved about short distances upon what are practically sledges, coming down from the quarries in the mountains atop of rude waggons, drawn by long teams of shod oxen ; the blocks are thrown off at the entrance to the marble yards, &c., and after- wards moved to their destinations (often some hundred yards) in the following fashion. The athletic mountaineers, who, with their bright crowbars, fairly hand - polished by " elbow grease," act as a bodyguard, raise the block a bit off the ground in front. The ends of two long pieces of timber (ten or twelve feet in length perhaps), turned up at each end like sleigh irons, are thrust under, and beneath these again skids of wood, three feet or so in length, and well soaped on their top sides, are pushed, thus occupying the same relative position to the long lengths as railway sleepers do to the metals. Upon the top of these skids the two runners, with the block of marble above, are pulled by waiting and patient oxen chained in front,