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Title: Notes and Queries 1850.02.23

Author: Various

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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

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No. 17.] Saturday, February 23. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--Page
Alfred's Orosius, by R.T. Hampson 257
Folk Lore--Omens from Cattle--Horse's Head--Rush-bearings 258
On Authors and Books, No. 5., by Bolton Corney 259
Plagiarisms, or Parallel Passages, No. 2. 260
St. Antholin's 260

QUERIES:--
College Salting, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 261
A few Dodo Queries, by H.E. Strictland 261
Coleridge's Christabel, Byron's Lara: Tablet to Napoleon 262
Minor Queries:--Howkey or Horkey--Lord Bacon's Psalms--Treatise of
Equivocation 263

REPLIES:--
Etymology of Armagh, by Rev. Dr. Todd 264
William Hasse and his Poems, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 265
Beaver Hats--Pisan, by T. Hudson Turner 266
Replies to Minor Queries:--Norman Pedigrees--Translation of AElian--Ave
Trici--Daysman--Saveguard--Calamity--Zero--Complutensian
Polyglot--Sir W. Rider--Pokership--Havior, Heavier or Hever--Sir W.
Hamilton--Dr. Johnson's Library 266

MISCELLANIES:--
Etymology of News--The Golden Age 270

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 270
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 271
Notices to Correspondents 271
Advertisements 271

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KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE.

The sketch of Europe, which our illustrious Alfred has inserted in his
translation of _Orosius_, is justly considered, both here and on the
Continent, as a valuable f