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 170 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. SEPT. i, iwo. in Murray, Baedeker, ' Encyclopaedia Britan- iiica,' Black's, Adam's, or Smith's 'Roman Antiquities,' nor yet in Lempriere. IGNORO. [You will find something about it in ' Ancient Rome and its Neighbourhood,' by Robert Burn, M.A. (Bell & Sons, 1895). We doubt whether you will find a translation.] 'THE STREAM OF TIME.' — Who was the author of this work, and what was its date ? W. T. L. Blackheath. IRON AND GREAT INVENTIONS. — The Athenaeum, 30 June, p. 817, says: " the birth of printing the greatest invention of the last five centuries." What is considered man's greatest invention ? Is iron considered an invention or a discovery ? for it was for- tunate for man when he first found himself in possession of iron. Was it first found " 140 B.C. by the Idaei Dactyli from the acci- dental burning of the woods of Mount Ida in Crete," mentioned in ' An Outline of Ancient History' at the end of Barclay's' Dictionary,' 1808 1 H. J. B. THE GRAVE OF GEORGE HERIOT.—Where is George Heriot buried ? It would appear from the following paragraph that he was originally interred in the parish of St. Mar- tinVin-the-Fields, and the body was possibly removed and reinterred elsewhere when the National Gallery was enlarged in 1866. " A London correspondent writes : In proceeding with the enlargement of the National Gallery, the authorities have acquired St. Martin's Workhouse, in which is a disused graveyard, containing the bones of two rather celebrated men, although in quite different walks—George Heriot and Jack bheppard. The whole building, with the graveyard and its contents, will be cleared away. Now, some few years ago, when the vaults of St. Martin-in- the-Fields were permanently closed, the members of the medical profession carried the body of the celebrated Dr. John Hunter to Westminster Abbey. Do you suppose the people of Edinburgh care anything about the remains of George Heriot or would be willing to take steps to find an appro- priate resting place for his bones 1—Edin. Courcmt." —Times, 18 Oct., 1866. It may be that George Heriot's remains were never identified, for, as Tom Taylor sings in 'An Elegy in a London Church- yard,' Where dozens lie all huddled in one vault No art can mark the spot where each decays. Heriot died in London 12 February, 1623/4, andj according to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' was buned in his parish church of St. Martin's- in-the-Fields. It may be noted that Heriot's second wife was Alison, daughter of James Primrose, of Carrington, clerk to the Scotch Privy Council, and grandfather of the first Earl of Rosebery. JOHN HEBB. EARLY IRISH IN ICELAND.—I read recently in Sir M. E. Grant Duff's 'Notes from a Diary' (1897) :— "The Olliviers, Renan, Gizot, and others dine with us [Paris, Nov. 29, 1859] The conversation turned upon Brittany, and passed thence to the early Scotch and Irish Saints. Renan said that the Irish were undoubtedly in Iceland before the Northmen." The italics are mine to emphasize my query. Had Renan any authority for this statement; ind, if so, where can it be found ? So far back as 1879 I drew attention, in the columns of the Building News, to indications—from a print in the same journal of the old church 3f Hitterdal, in Norway—of Irish crosses in Norway ; but Renan's assertion regarding Iceland is new to me—as perhaps to others. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. TOMB IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—What prince, buried in the Abbey, was the son, brother, uncle, and father of kings, but was never king himself? H. T. B. HERALDIC.—Do American families keep up heraldic bearings ; and if so. where can I find the arms of Pennsylvanian families ? E. E. COPE. Sulhamstead, Berks. MOATED MOUNDS. (9th S. v. 309, 399, 454 ; vi. 11, 76, 134.) I AM glad to note that we may hope for a dissertation on this subject from MR. I. C. GOULD, whose paper on 'Early Fortifications' seems to nave been very favourably received by the Archaeological Association at Leicester. If direct evidence can be advanced to prove the use of moated mounds in England before the Conquest, a long step will have been taken towards settling the question. The assumption that a burh means a moated mound appears at present insufficiently warranted. As to the inclusion of churches within castle embankments, my remark to which MR. GOULD refers (ante, p. 77) was limited to parish churches, and did not, of course, apply to private chapels. I fancy the works which enclose parish churches would hardly be describea as part of a castle, though they may have an intimate connexion with one. MR. GOULD'S experience seems to bear out mine, that such outer enclosures are them-