Mr. Mayer's expenses by a large annual
amount.]

_"Could we with ink,"_ &c. (Vol. iii., pp. 127. 180. 257. 422.).--Have not
those correspondents who have answered this Query overlooked the concluding
verse of the gospel according to St. John, of which it appears to me that
the lines in question are an amplification without improvement? Mahomet, it
is well known, imitated many parts of the Bible in the Koran.

E. G. R.

_"Populus vult decipi"_ (Vol. vii., p. 578.; Vol. viii, p. 65.).--As an
illustration of this expression the following anecdote is given. When my
father was about thirteen years old, being in London he was, on one
occasion in company with Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who, calling him to
him, laid his hand on his head, and said, "My little boy, I want you to
remember one thing as long as you live--the people of this world love to be
cheated."

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

_Red Hair_ (Vol. vii., p. 616.; Vol. viii., p. 86.).--It is frequently
stated that the Turks are admirers of red hair. I have lately met with a
somewhat different account, namely, that the Turks consider red-haired
persons who are fat as "first-rate" people, but those who are lean as the
very reverse.

M. E.

Philadelphia.

_"Land of Green Ginger"_ (Vol. viii., p. 227.).--The authority which I am
able to afford MR. RICHARDSON is simply the tradition of the place, which I
had so frequently heard that I could scarcely doubt the truth of it; this I
intended to be deduced, when I said I did not recollect that the local
histories gave any derivation, and that it was the one "generally received
by the inhabitants."

To any mind the solution brought forward by MR. BUCKTON (Vol. viii., p.
303.) carries the greatest amount of probability with it of any yet
proposed; and should any of your correspondents have the opportunity of
looking through the unpublished history of Hull by the Rev. De la Pryme,
"collected out of all the records, charters, deeds, mayors' letters, &c. of
the said town," and now placed amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the British
Museum, I am inclined to think it is very likely it would be substantiated.

In Mr. Frost's valuable work on the town, which by the way proves it to
have been "a place of opulence and note at a period long anterior to the
date assigned to its existence by historians," he differs materially from
MR. RICHARDSON, in considering that Hollar's plate was "engraved about the
year 1630," not in 1640 as h