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 9th S. IV. Dec. 16, '99.] 497 NOTES AND QUERIES. to .search various printed vocabularies of South American languages, and I have at last traced the word to two dialects of the Carib family, the Ouayana and the Apalai or Aparai, both spoken in Guiana. See the fifteenth volume of the ' Bibliotheque Lin- guistique Americaine,' Paris, 1892. James Platt, Jun. Quttui. Wk must remiest correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. " Bridge."—What is the derivation of the name given to the latter-day card craze "Bridge"? Is it possible to find some con- nexion between the Russian term Schlem and the English Slam? What part does the Oerman game of Skat play in this fin-deriecle tragedy? Clvude Ponsonby. [" Bridging " a card is slightly bending it into n curved form, so as to influence the cut. This does not much help.] Duel in 1698 (?) between Sir Sewster Peyton, of Boxford, co. Suffolk, and Mr. Thomas King, of Suffolk, in which the latter was killed. Where shall I find any particulars of this duel and its exact date? C. Mason. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W. Phineas Cockrane (or Cockrain) was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School in 1611, and graduated M.A. in 1619. I shall l>e glad to bave any further particulars concerning him. G. F. R. B. Venn : Mountford.—Can you inform me where there can be found a biography of the Rev. Henry Venn? He was born at Barnes, 2 March, 1724, and died at Clapham in 1797. He was educated at Jesus College, Cam- bridge, and was appointed first vicar of Huddersfield, and afterwards Rector of Yelling, Huntingdonshire. And can you tell me where I can find some particulars of the life of Lord Mountford, who lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century? No biography of this nobleman is given in the ' Dictionary of National Biography '—at least, none appears under the heading ' Mount- ford.' F. S. Ashley-Cooper. [For Venn see ' D.N.B.'] " Up, Guards, and at them !'—It is curious how i>eople still continue to ascribe this inspiriting utterance to the Iron Duke and Waterloo. In the Christmas number of a well-known pictorial weekly, which lies at my elbow, the error is repeated at the foot of its coloured supplement. Nor does the in- accuracy appear to stop here ; for, as men- tioned in tbat most useful little work ' The Mistakes We Make,' by C. E. Clark (Pearson), it was not the Guards, but the 52nd Light Infantry which broke the column of the French Imperial Guard in the final charge. But Mr. Clark is somewhat tantalizing ; tor he gives us only bald contradiction where full enlightenment would be so very welcome. Can it be established beyond doubt whether these famous words were ever used in battle ? If so, when and by whom ? Cecil Clarke, Authors' Club, S.W. Arms on Book - plate. — The following armorial bearings appear on the book-plate of a John Hunter: Per fesse, argent and vert, in chief three hunting - horns of the second, garnished and stringed gules, in base three greyhounds courant of the first (for Hunter); impaling Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, a lion rampant; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, three horses' heads ' couped. Can any of your readers inform mo to what family the im- paled arms belong ? In Dr. G. R. Mather's 'Two Great Scotsmen: William and John Hunter,' an illustration of this book-plate is given, and erroneously stated to be that of the celebrated surgeon. He, however, married a daughter of Dr. R. B. Home, of Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, whose family arms are quite different, as can be seen on John Hunter's monument in Westminster Abbey. A. A. Hunter. The English Mile.—The first milestones erected in England were set up on the road between Cambridge and London in 1729. In my own neighbourhood I think I can discover traces of measured miles in certain lengths of road, of course previous to this date. In this connexion I should be glad of (1) informa- tion as to the origin of the present mile of 1,760 yards and the date of its adoption, and (2) any references in contemporary literature to show that this measure of length was in common use throughout the country. W. R. G. St. Ives. Palm Wine. — In Mr. Watts - Dunton's romance 'Aylwin' fp. 273) we are told that when the hero of the story opened the coffin containing the embalmed body of his father he stood "inhaling the scents of opobalsam, and cinnamon and myrrh, and wine of palm