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 _ -Q - I, - j'Y) ) I »Y ) 368 A NOTES AND QUERIES. IU' B- VL Nov-10-lm g anyil, belonged got a gratuity of 14s. Was this a trial of strength or skill, and how was the contest conducted? I should be lad of Information on the point. J.   P. PHONOLOGICAL STATISTICS. - In W. D. Whitney’s ‘Oriental Studies# 1875, pp. 174-6, are careful calculations of the percentages in which English sounds and the classes of these sounds are employed. I should be obliged for references to similar estimates (especially to any made on the same basis, and, conse- quent y, comparable) of other lan uages, as also for statistics of consonant eomiinations. Calculations for different periods of a lan- guage would be useful to indicate general ten encies of phonetic develo ment. Have any such calcu ations been madlel CHARLES G. STUART-MENTEATH. 23, Upper Bedford Place, W.C. LANGUAGE 'ro coNcEAL THOUGHT.-In one of Young’s ‘ Satires ’ the couplet occurs :>- Where Nature’s end of langua e is declined, . And men speak only to conceal the mind. Washington Irvin, in his life of Goldsmith, gives Goldsmith time credit of this e i ram, so commonly attributed to Talleyrandl Ilold- smith, however apparently borrowed it from Young, and Talleyrand probably from Gold- smith. Can any of your readers give me the precise passage in Young’s ‘Satlres ’ where the couplet occurs? WILLIAM WARRAND CARLILE. [Where Nature’s end of langu is declined, And men talk only to conceallllilia mind. --‘ Love of Fame, the Universal Passion] satire ii. Il. W7-8; Aldine edition, vol. ii. p. 75. Misquoted in Forster’s ‘ Goldsmith ’ and elses here.] “CARAMBoLAGE.”-This is French" for' a “ cannon ” at billiards. Whence derived ‘l W . CROOKE. Langton House, Charlton Kings. [The word reaches the French from the Spanish carambola, which see in a Spanish dictionary. This takes one further back wit out helping one much, the Spanish origin being unknown. Seoane’s Neu- man and Baretti s ‘Spanish and English Dictionary ’ givesas meanin§ to carambola: l. “ Manner of playing at the illiard Table ”; 2. “Method of laying the game of cards called Revesino”; ll. “(Met.) Device or trick to cheat or deceive ” ° 4. “(Bot.) Carambola tree, an East Indian tree (Avershoa carambola, L. ).”] HAMMOND, A SCHOOLFELLOW or HORACE WALPoLE.-In a letter to Earl Harcourt of 1779 (Cunninghams ed., vol. vii. p. 250) Horace Walpo e mentions one Hammond who had been his schoolfellow at Eton, and who, after selling an estate at Teddington about 1759, existed by begging from his con- temporaries and former sclioolfellows. _ I should be glad of any information which would help me to identify this Hammond and the estate sold by him. H. T. B. °‘ N ONE snr 'ms BRAVE DESERVHS) THE FAIR.”+ Will Prof. Skeat, or some 0316? learned authority on English gl'8!DU1@»f» kindly inform me whether the verb Ls sin- lar or plural? I believe the matter has Eben discussed in ‘ N. & Q.’ before. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S. W. [Nesfield (‘ English Grammar Past and Presenfl sa s that none was originally used only as a sin- ular and quotes the a ve passage with Ile adds that the plural sense (none for not any ) is now equally or more common, and the wond was certainly regarded sometimes as a plural In Eliza- bethan times. See 9**‘ S. Iv. 439, 544; V- 38, 235-l AFRICAN Exoncxsm.-Some *years MKQ I remember reading an account o an exorcism in some book of African travels, possibly Schweinfurth’s or Petherick’s. It was HIGH' tioned, among other things, that the exorclser rofessed to make the devil speak,_and _pro- suced that impression by VBl'|i5l'll0Qu[3m § also that the process left the lpatient ID 8 stat/e of nervous exhaustion. cannot find this passage now. Can any one refer me to it or to similar stories in other wntfrslg T ROMAN RRnIA1Ns IN SOU:1‘HWARK AND LAMRE'rII.-Some Roman remains were found last ear on the site of a pile-dwelling near Southwark Street and in excavating; or the foundations of some baths at _ Ihbfith- Have they been placed in any public collec- tion, with exact details of their discovery? One was a hair in surmounted with a crown- The Roman lock of hair in the York Museum is well known. T. CANN HUGHES. Lancaster. . WILLIAM CULPEPER married Margaret. daughter of Rev. Richard Alleyne, Rector of Stowting, Kent, 30 June, 1633. Lan any one tell me who this William Culpeger was l-in what way connected with the ulpepers of Hollingbourne, Aylesford, Wakehurst, or elsewhere? ' R. BINDON. Warillinster. EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION.-In Hayd_n’s ‘Dictionary of Dates,’ under ‘Steam Engine and Navigation] I read: “Rising Sun, a steamer built by Lord Cochrane, crossed the Atlantic, 18l8.” I have referred to_the Times newspaper of 23 June, 1819, wherein is reported the arrival of the American steam- ship Savannah, 350 tons, at Liverpool, which