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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 227.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 4. 1854.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," by Dr. E. F.
Rimbault 191
"[Greek: Aion]," its Derivation 192
William Lyons, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross 192
Curious Marriage Agreement 193
Ancient American Languages, by K. R. H. Mackenzie 194
Conduitt and Newton, by Bolton Corney 195

MINOR NOTES:--The Music in Middleton's Tragi-Comedy
of the "Witch"--Mr. Macaulay and Sir Archibald Alison
in error--"Paid down upon the nail"--Corpulence a
Crime--Curious Tender--The Year 1854--A Significant
Hint 196

QUERIES:--
Literary Queries, by the Rev. R. Bingham 197

MINOR QUERIES:--Hunter of Polmood in Tweed-dale--
Dinteville Family--Eastern Practice of Medicine--
Sunday--Three Picture Queries--"Cutting off with a
Shilling"--Inman or Ingman Family--Constable of
Masham--Fading Ink--Sir Ralph Killigrew 198

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Pepys--"Ret