size
of a dried fig (_carica_), and of a black colour; and that if the mare
does not swallow it immediately, she will not let the foal suck her.
Aristotle (_H. A._, VIII. 24.) says this is merely an old wives' tale.
He mentions, however, the [Greek: polion], or bit of livid flesh, which
we call the foal's bit, and which he says the mare ejects before the
foal."--_Notes, &c._, p. 273. on _Georgic._ III. 280. ff.

With regard to the plant called _Hippomanes_, commentators, as may be seen
from Kiessling's note on Theocritus, ii. 48., are by no means agreed.
Certainly Andrews, in his edition of Freund, is wrong in referring Virgil
_Georgic._ III. 283. to that meaning. The use of _legere_ probably misled.

E. S. JACKSON.

_Wardhouse, where was?_ (Vol. viii., p. 78.).--It probably is the same as
Wardoehuus or Vardoehus, a district and town in Norwegian Finmark, on the
shores of the Arctic Ocean, inhabited principally by fishermen.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

Wallington.

_Divining Rod_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The inquirer should read the
statement made by Dr. Herbert Mayo, in his letters _On the Truths contained
in Popular Superstitions_, 1851, pp. 3-21. To the facts there recorded I
may add, that I have heard Mr. Dawson Turner relate that he himself saw the
experiment of the divining rod satisfactorily carried out in the hands of
Lady Noel Byron; and some account of it is to be found, I believe, in an
article by Sir F. Palgrave, in the _Quarterly Review_.

[mu].

_Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--His arms are engraved
on a plate dedicated to him by Willis, in his _Survey of the Cathedrals of
England_, 1742, vol. i. p. 284., and appear thus, _Argent, on a chevron
gules, three besants_; but in a MS. collection by the late Canon Rowling of
Lichfield, relating to bishops' arms, I find his coat thus given,--_Argent,
on a chevron engrailed gules, three besants_. The variation may have arisen
from an error of the engraver. It appears from Willis that Dr. Waugh was a
fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; and the entry of his matriculation would
no doubt show in what part of England his family resided. He was
successively Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill; Prebendary of Lincoln; Dean
of Gloucester; and Bishop of {401} Carlisle; to which latter dignity he was
promoted in August, 1723.

[mu].

_Pagoda_ (Vol. v., p. 415.).--The European word pagoda is most probably
derived, by transposition of th