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 174 . vi. SEPT. i. im NOTES AND QUERIES. older name of Bahia de Santa Maria which the Spaniards had bestowed on Chesapeake Bay, on whose shores Maryland lies. Lord Baltimore, who was a Roman Catholic, called the scat of his government St. Mary's."—P. 189. More or less directly the B.V.M. is the source of all the Maries, both personal and woaL ST. SWITHIN. FRENCH CATHEDRALS (9th S. vi. 107).—MR. BOUCHIER may be glad to know that a com- panion series to 'rBell's Cathedral Series," dealing with foreign churches, is being pre- pared for publication by the same firm. Two volumes on Rouen and Chartres are. I believe, in the press. I can find no trace of a similar series in French. The local guides there are little better than those published in our own cathedral cities. CHARLES HIATT. In answer to MR. BOUCHIEE'S inquiry as to the existence of any works on the French cathedrals similar to our "Cathedral Series," may we say that we hope to extend our series to include continental cathedrals? Volumes on Chartres, Itouen, and Paris (Notre Dame) are already in preparation, and the first named will be ready very shortly. GEORGE BELL & SONS. WEM (9* S. vi. 88).-Being on the Welsh march, Wem, like other neighbouring names, may l>e Celtic, in which case it may be cognate with uainh, a cave or hollow, which we have in Wembdon, Wamphray, and Pitten- weem. The A.-S. wernm, " macula,"and wamb, "vulva," also supply possible etymologies, but the locality requires to be known. ISAAC TAYLOR. May I suggest the connexion between this name and the Gaelic uamA, a cave, and so with Wemyss (pronounced Weems), and the Tilly Whun caves near Swanage 1 McUitchie, in his 'Fians, Fairies, and Picts,' goes into the subject. Can your correspondent say if there is a cave in the neighbourhood of Wemt HED X. THE CAMPBELLS (9th S. yi. 28). — ' The Scottish Nation,' by William Anderson, published in 1863 by A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, gives an account of the Camp- bells of Argyle from very early times. E. MEIN. Blundellsands. SAHARA (9th S. vi. 68).—The well-known explorer NachtigaL, who died about 1885, and who spent over twenty years in the northern half of Africa, has described the countries through which he passed in a three- volumed work entitled ' Sahara und Sudan,' copiously illustrated. Nachtigal was, I be- lieve, the first European to visit the regions known as Tibbu and Tibesti, south of Fezzan. His maps are admirable. Chavanne, who wrote about the same time, appears to have treated of the whole of the Sahara, but on a smaller scale. His book is adorned with a few chromolithographs which may or may not give a good notion of the local colouring. A straightforward and detailed account of this vast and varied region is to be found in the ' Geographic Universelle' of Keclus. The original French edition should be consulted if possible. It contains numerous maps, pictures, and plans of the caravan routes, and isnodoubt a rtsuni of all that has been written on the subject up till quite recently. Largeau, who started about 1875 on a journey from Algiers to the Niger in the hope of discovering a suit- able route for a railway across the desert, but who did not get further than Ouargla, has left an account of his impressions of the Algerian Sahara in the twenty-second volume of the Tour du Monde. T. P. ARMSTRONG. Timperley. I am indebted for the following list of books on this subject to a very useful work, now in course of publication, entitled 'A Contents- Subject Index,' compiled by A. Cotgreave, F.R.Hist.S. Sahara, Africa (the largest desert in the world): Slave Trade in the Sahara.—White's ' Africa,' 1890 States and Races in the Sahara.—Johnston's ' Africa,' 1884. Visit to the Western Sahara.—Gtnlleman'sMaga- zine, voL cclxxxiii., 1897. General.—Earth's 'North Africa,' 1890. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. PEDIGREE RESEARCH (9th S. vi. 8).—If M. will give the name of the remote Highland parish, I may be able to supply him the dates of the earliest registers of births, marriages, and deaths which are in the General Register House, Edinburgh. J. G. WALLACE-JAMES, M.B. Haddington. BROTHERS WITH THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (9th S. i. 446; ii. 51, 217, 276, 535 ; ui. 34, 438).—Some years ago there was a dis- cussion in 'N. & Q.' on this subject, and several notable examples were given. To these we may now add one more, as witness the following, taken from a newspaper cutting :— " The De Wets, like the Krugers, are not all up in anus against the Queen. At least two of the name are of well-approved loyalty. These are Sir Jacobus Albertus De Wet, K.C.M.G., and Sir Jacobus I Mi us De Wet. Despite the identity of