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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850

Author: Various

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--
Portrait of Cardinal Beaton 433
On the Pointing of a Passage in "All's Well that Ends
Well" by A. Roffe 434
Folk-Lore:--The bigger the Ring, the nearer the Wet
--Power of prophesying before Death--Change in the
Appearance of the Dead--Strange Remedies--Mice
as a Medicine--Omens from Birds 434
Mode of computing Interest 435
On the Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 436
Minor Notes.--Sermon's Pills--An Infant Prodigy--
A Hint for Publishers--"He who runs may read"--
The Rolliad--The Conquest 438

QUERIES:--
Bibliographical Queries 440
Minor Queries.--Dr. Timothy Thruscross--Echo
Song--Meaning of Thwaites--Deus Justificatus--
Death by Burning--Irish Bull--Farquharson's
Observations on Aurorae--Defender of the Faith--
Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Roman Churches--
Dandridge the Painter--Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve--
John o'Groat's House--Dancing the Bride to
Bed--Duke and Earl of Albermarle 441

REPLIES:--
Julin, the Drowned City 443
Nicho