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Walford (Old and New London,' iv. 14) derives it "from the Welsh word Tut, a spring or rising "; the simple answer to which is that there is no such word in the Welsh language with that meaning. There is a word Twt, but it signifies something quite different. Another antiquary, quoted by Mr. Walford, derives the name from Teut, "the chief divinity of the Druids, and the equivalent of Thoth, the Egyptian Mercury." The Druids and the Egyptians offer an inexhaustible source to those whose only idea of etymological inquiry is that of idle guesswork. Canon Taylor ('Words and Places') quotes Lucan for the Celtic divinity Teutates, or Taith, and considers that Tot-hill, &c., may possibly have been seats of Celtic worship.

It happens not unfrequently that inquirers roam abroad in search of information which lies at their feet if they will only stoop to pick it up.

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The old English or Saxon verb Totian means to lift up, to elevate; eminere, tanquam cornu in fronte." It has its equivalent in Old Ger. Tuttel, Tutta. Hence the idea of watching and surveying. Tote-hylle is given in the 'Catholicon in Lingua Materna,' the oldest English-Latin dictionary, with the Latin equivalent specula, a height, eminence, look-out. Hence the verb to toot, anciently to tote, to spy, look carefully, to pry. Toot-hill is the English "Look-out."

The fullest information on this subject will be found in Mr. Albert Way's notes to the edition of the Promptorium Parvulorum' published by the Camden Society. Sub voc. "Totehylle" he gives a note with an exhaustive list of quotations and references, leaving not a shadow of doubt as to the origin and application of the term Toote-hill. J. A. PICTON.

Sandyknowe, Wavertree.

CREST-WREATHS AND MANTLES (6th S. xii. 514). I think I am right in saying that when there is metal in the arms-and surely there generally is-the wreath should be twined of a strand of that metal and of one which is of the tincture of the field. I have the impression that not more than six alternations of metal and tincture should be shown in the representation of a wreath, and that the metal should be first in the series. Engravers, carriage-painters, and other workmen usually know so little of heraldry that we cannot wonder their performances are fertile in examples of errors which may come to be cited as precedents. ST. SWITHIN.

loughby d'Eresby family. Many of the signboards.
were done by some "limner, who travelled the
country and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a
head," like the nameless wanderer whose fame
lives in the pages of The Vicar of Wakefield.'
H. G. GRIFFINHOOFE.
34, St. Petersburg Place, W.

WILLIAM POWELL, THE "HIGHGATE PROPHET"
(6th S. xii. 493).-Powell held a situation in the
Treasury, but he was unfortunately lucky in gain-
ing a prize of 500l. in a lottery, from which time
he neglected his official duties and never ceased
wandering after lottery speculations. He soon lost
not only the 500l., but his situation, which he was
permitted to resign upon a very small pension.
He lived in Sloane Street, at the expense of some
friends, until Aug. 15, 1803, and was buried in
the burying-ground. King's Road, Chelsea, at the
age of sixty-four. For several years, in all seasons
and weathers, he walked early in the morning
from Sloane Street to the foot of Highgate Hill,
then, raising his hands to heaven as in the act of
devotion, would start off in a run, and never
stopped or looked back till he had reached the
top; but if stopped, would return to the spot
whence he started, and recommence his running
till he had accomplished his purpose.
asked the cause of this practice, he replied that
when he ceased to ascend the hill in that manner
the world would be no more. This gained him
the appellation of "the prophet," by which he was
known at Highgate.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

When

TUNISIA (7th S. i. 7).-The list of works on Tunis given by H. S. A. does not include 'Tunis, the Land and People,' by the Chevalier Ernest von Hesse Warteg, published by Chatto & Windus some three years ago. J. WOODWARD.

CARISBROOK CASTLE AND NEWPORT (7th S. i. 9).-C. A. J. M. would find all the principal early engravings of places connected with the period comprised in Clarendon-and, of course, therefore, of Carisbrook and Newport-in the Sutherland collection in the Bodleian. There is a complete catalogue, in two quarto volumes, which must be in the British Museum. ED. MARSHALL.

CAREW RALEIGH (6th S. xii. 448, 527).—CarIn Scotland the latter are always given gules based chiefly upon that given in the 'Parl. Hislyle's list of Long Parliament members is probably

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and argent.

St. Andrew's, N.B.

GEORGE ANGUS.

SIGN-PAINTING ARTISTS (6th S. xii. 494).-One the best-known signboards painted by an artist is that of "The Royal Oak," at Bettws-y-Coed, by David Cox. It is now, after much stormy weather and litigation, safe in the possession of the Wil

tory,' and is far from exhaustive as to names or conclusive as to the constituencies represented. The "Recruiters" for Kellington (or Callington), brought in to replace the "disabled" members, were, as I have already shown (6th S. xii. 448) Edward, Lord Clinton, and Thomas Dacres, who were elected circa September, 1646. Conse

quently, if Carew Raleigh represented this Cornish borough, he must have been returned later on in the place of one of these. Thomas Dacres was one of the "secluded" members in December, 1648. Lord Clinton ceased to be a member about the same time, or possibly a little earlier, but whether from death or seclusion has not been ascertained. If from the former, Raleigh may have been elected in his stead, retaining his seat -like Prynne in the case of Newport-but a few weeks till expelled by the "Purge." The date of decease of Lord Clinton (who was eldest son of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln) would, could it correctly be ascertained, possibly help to solve the difficulty.

W. D. PINK.

spondent is quite right in his estimate of the worth
of the book. It was one of the greatest delights of
one's childhood, and it is a pity it has never been
exactly reproduced.
B. MONTGOMERIE RANKING.

the brief life of Molinos prefixed to "Golden
MOLINOS (6th S. xii. 496; 7th S. i. 38).—See
Thoughts from the Spiritual Guide of Miguel
Molinos, the Quietist.' With Preface by J. Henry
Shorthouse, Author of 'John Inglesant.' Glasgow,
1883." See also a short sketch of Molinos and his
doctrine in R. A. Vaughan's 'Hours with the
Mystics,' vol. ii. p. 242, third edition (undated).
A. J. M.
Temple.

INSCRIPTIONS ON WELLS AND FONTS (6th S. VISITATION OF LONDON IN 1687 (6th S. xii. xii. 349, 394; 7th S. i. 15).-On a font in Cat-495).-This Visitation has never been printed, nor terick Church, York, is an inscription around the is it likely to be, as the original is in the College pedestal the letters I. A. R. or C., in Old Eng of Arms, London (K. 9), and no transcript (it is lish, and above, in panels, are shields of arms of the local gentry. On one shield are the arms of believed) exists elsewhere. The pedigree of Upton, Fairfax (?), on another the letter B, on a third the Billingsgate Ward, Love Lane Precinct, is the arms of Cleborn of Killerby, near Catterick, and should apply to one of the heralds respecting the second therein contained, and your correspondent several other shields on other panels that I cannot fee for a copy. I may add that the names of recall. Will some correspondent oblige me with the meaning of the inscription and date of this Henry Upton, Dukes Place; Hugh Upton, ditto; font? It seems to be of the fifteenth century. Mr. Upton, Newington Town; and Gilb. Upton, Cloak Lane, appear in the first' London Directory F. A. DIXON. of Merchants,' 1677, and that my vast collections from parish registers would doubtless furnish

Philadelphia. [R. F. C. supplies an inscription which has already further information as to the family, if desired. appeared.]

HOLBEIN (6th S. xii. 429; 7th S. i. 14).—Pilkington says:

"It is observed by most authors that Holbein always painted with his left hand; though one modern writer objects against that tradition (what he considers as a proof) that in a portrait of Holbein painted by himself, which was in the Arundelian collection, he is represented holding the pencil in the right hand. But, with great deference to the opinion of that ingenious connoisseur, that evidence cannot be sufficient to set aside so general a testimony of the most authentic writers on this subject; because, although habit and practice might enable him to handle the pencil familiarly with his left hand, yet, as it is so unusual, it must have had but an unseemly and awkward appearance in a picture; which probably might have been his real inducement for representing himself without such a peculiarity. Besides, the writer of Holbein's life at the end of the treatise by De Piles mentions a print by Hollar, still extant, which describes Holbein drawing with his left hand.” Pilkington agrees with J. Bagford in giving the date of Holbein's death as 1554, but at the age of fifty-six.

Dublin.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

W. I. R. V.

ORIGIN OF PROVERBIAL PHRASE (7th S. i. 8).—
Ray compares this with a Spanish proverb :-
"If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Maho-
met go the mountain.' Si no va el otero a Mahoma,
Since we cannot do as we
vaya Mahoma el otero.

would, we must do as we can."-Bohn, 'Proverbs,'
P. 117.
ED. MARSHALL.

HOKEY POKEY (6th S. xii. 366, 526).—The derivation of hocus pocus from "Hoc est corpus " is, I believe, Tillotson's. He says:—

"In all probability those common jugling words of hocus pocus, are nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus, by way of ridiculous imitation of the priests of the church of Rome in their trick of Transubstantiation."-Works,' vol. i. Ser. 26.

Nares thinks that the expression is taken from the Italian jugglers, who said Ochus Bochus, in reference to a famous magician of those names. Is this gentleman apocryphal? If not, when did he exist? Prof. Skeat, in his 'Dictionary,' regards the expression as a reduplication. He mentions 'MARMADUKE MULTIPLY'S MERRY METHOD' that Hokos-Pokos is the name of the juggler in (7th S. i. 8).-A. W. R. might probably get all the Ben Jonson's' Magnetic Lady,' licensed in October, information he wants from Mr. Charles Welsh, of 1632. Ben Jonson has the word in an earlier Messrs. Griffith, Farran & Co. I am almost cer- play, 'The Staple of News,' first acted in 1625:tain he once told me that a copy of the book "Iniquity came in like hokos-pokos in a jugler's was in the possession of the firm. Your corre-jerkin, with false skirts like the knave of clubs "

(II., sub finem). Is there no earlier instance of the use of the word? F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

In the twenty-first volume of the Mirror I find the following origin for these words, and one would be glad to think they were not a piece of Puritan profanity:

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &0.

"Ochus Bochus was a magician and demon among the Saxons, dwelling in forests and caves, and we have his name and abode handed down to the present day in Somersetshire (viz., Wokey Hole, near Wells). Thus it appears that modern conjurors, in making use of the words, are invoking the name of their powerful pre-conquest and sack of the seat of the Eastern Empire. The

decessor."

This is taken from a note to the 'Dragon King' in Pennie's 'Historical Drama.'

CHARLOTTE G. BOGER.

St. Saviour's, Southwark. SUICIDE OF ANIMALS, INSECTS, &c. (6th S. xi. 227, 354; xii. 295, 454).—Mr. Frederick Whymper is communicating some interesting papers on Travellers' Snake Stories' to Good Words. In the second of these papers (December, p. 786) he has this notice of a snake suicide:

"An Australian gentleman some years ago was the cause of a venomous snake committing suicide by poisoning itself. (Communication to the Launceston Examiner, TasInania, quoted in Nature, May 13, 1880.) He had pinned a black snake to the ground by means of a forked stick, and unintentionally by his haste in the middle of the body. No sooner had he done this than the snake got in a violent rage, and instantly buried its fangs in itself, making the spot wet either with viscid slime or the deadly poison. It had hardly unburied its fangs when its coils round the stick suddenly relaxed, a perceptible quiver ran through its body, and in much less time than it takes to write this, it lay extended and motionless, as though gasping for breath. In less than three minutes from the time it bit itself it was perfectly dead."

ED. MARSHALL.

OXFORD CATALOGUE (6th S. xii. 516).-In the English edition of Bayle (5 vols., folio, London, 1736), iii. 528, the passage queried by MR. C. A. WARD is given thus:-"I know the Latin version only by means of the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library. It was printed in the year 1622 in 8vo., and translated by Esch. Major." Huarte's book, to which this paragraph refers, has been translated into English by Richard Curew (with an Exeter imprint, 1596, 4to.), or, as some say, by Thomas Carew; and by Mr. Bellamy (8vo., 1698), &c.

ALFRED WALLIS.

MINOR WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT (7th S. i. 29).-Can the Keepsake for 1829 be a slip of the pen for 1828? Because in the latter were originally published 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror,' 'The Tapestried Chamber,' and 'The Death of the Laird's Jock.' All three of these short stories are certainly by Sir Walter Scott, and may be seen in any collected edition of his works.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

The Fall of Constantinople: being the Story of the Fourth Crusade. By Edwin Pears, LL.B. (Longmans & Co.) THE second title of Mr. Pears's volume is necessary to explain the first. What is generally known as the fall of Constantinople, that is, its subjugation beneath Moslem rule, Mr. Pears mentions incidentally as a remote con sequence of agencies the working of which he describes. Less than half his very interesting and scholarly volume is, indeed, occupied with the fourth crusade and with the first and longer portion is concerned with a description of persistent attempts at invasion of imperial territory on the part of the Turks and Tartars, which, though resisted with almost unbroken success, sapped the strength of Constantinople, and with the internal causes Surwhich led to decline and ultimate defeat. rounded on all sides by hostile and aggressive populations, the Byzantine empire needed for its preservation fortiunfortunately, these did not possess. Noteworthy alike tude and energy on the part of rulers and people such as, for the splendour of its treasures of art and erudition and for the private wealth of its rulers and citizens, it stood an object of universal cupidity. Its destruction was brought about by the licentiousness of its rulers, by internecine feud, by luxury, effeminacy, and vice such as have ruined many empires. So quickly did emperors succeed each other in later times that a change passed almost unnoticed by the people. Mr. Pears, indeed, in some striking passages shows how something answering to the fatalism of the modern Turk existed in Constantinople in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Illustrations of this kind the information obtained by Mr. Pears while president of the European Bar at Constantinople enables him to make with signal gain to his work. Mr. Pears over-estimates the effect of Turkish attempts at invasion. Those countless hordes which he picturesquely describes fell off broken and beaten from the empire which was so long the bulwark of Christianity. At the period when the fourth crusade was diverted from its specific purpose and sent to the destruction of a Christian capital, he shows that the Turkish power was broken. The real causes of decline were, as has been said, luxury,vice, and effeminacy, aggravated by domestic discord. Upon these things supervened the invasion from the West, brought about by the ambition and envy of Venice, and assumably by the wrongs of Dandolo, and the doom of Constantinople was sealed and the city was weakened until it became the prey of the Moslem. Upon the manner which the leaders of the fourth crusade were led to adopt the policy of Venice, and to direct, in the face of for the conquest of Palestine, Mr. Pears has written some Papal prohibition, against Constantinople a force raised admirable chapters. Of the fidelity and service of the Warings or Varangian guards he gives a striking picture. His book is, in short, an eminently satisfactory product of researches not only in Villehardouin and Nicetas and the Byzantine historians, but in modern French and German literature upon the subject. Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift. Selected and edited by Stanley Lane-Poole. (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.)

As a companion volume to the selection from Swift's prose writings, included in that delightful series the

Parchment Library," has now been issued a selection from Swift's journal to Stella and from his letters. The task, far from easy, of foraging in correspondence so voluminous, has been admirably accomplished, and the

letters given are in all respects representative. In these things we see Swift at his best, and those who know the great master of English only in his imaginative works, or in the biographies of him that have been written, will do well to have the volume by their side. To those who read the passages on the death of Mrs. Johnson, pp. 168 et seq., it will be difficult to believe all the evil that has been written about Swift. The whole, indeed, besides being delightful reading, is calculated to raise our estimate of the man. It is pleasant to hear that Mr. Lane-Poole has had no call to bowdlerize these letters. The editor's notes are brief and to the purpose, the prefatory matter is satisfactory in all respects, and the volume is an acceptable addition to a series that has established itself in public favour.

Fotheringay and Mary, Queen of Scots. By Cuthbert Bede. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.)

OUR brilliant and versatile contributor Cuthbert Bede has collected into a volume the papers on Fotheringay which he contributed twenty years ago to the Leisure Hour. These interesting chapters have, however, been considerably revised and corrected, and have been adorned with fresh illustrations. Thus improved they constitute a pleasant and valuable contribution to topography, and, indeed, to history, as well as an agreeable companion to those who may visit the spot. It is needless to say that Cuthbert Bede espouses warmly the cause of Mary Stuart, of whose fortitude and resignation under the most trying circumstances he gives a graphic account. Very attractive reading is the volume, and the appendices contain much valuable matter. The illustrations, principally by the author, have a value of their own, and the book deserves the welcome it is sure to get from a large class of readers. These illustrations include a reproduction of an original portrait in the possession of the author, which goes far to justify the reputation of the unfortunate queen for beauty.

The White Horses of the West of England, with Notices of some other Ancient Turf Monuments. By the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, M.A. (A. R. Smith.) On those curious turf monuments-of which this country possesses, so far as is known, a monopoly-the rector of Cherhill has written a brief and valuable dissertation, giving a full account of all which are known to exist, and putting forward some ingenious theories as to their origin. The work is scholarly and constitutes a desirable possession. Much inforination is cast upon the subject from ancient coins, engravings of which and of the monuments themselves are afforded. On p. 11 Mr. Plenderleath speaks of the authorship of the pamphlet entitled The Impertinence and Superstition of Modern Antiquaries displayed by Philalethes Rusticus,' being apparently assigned to Mr. Bumstead, while a copy in the Devizes Museum gives the name of Esplin as author. The pamphlet in question, which consists of a letter, is by the Rev. William Asplin, M.A., vicar of Banbury, author of Alkibia: a Disquisition upon Worshipping towards the East.' The preface is by Bumpstead, or Bumstead, to whom the letter is addressed.

The Antiquary. Vol. XII., July-December, 1885. (Stock.) IN an excellent volume of the Antiquary a few papers stand prominently forward. Amongst these are Mr. Wheatley's review of Miss Toulmin Smith's volume 'The York Plays'; Mr. Ordish's account of the London theatres in Tudor and Stuart times; Mr. J. H. Round's paper on The Attack on Dover'; Mr. Price's Notes on London Wall'; Mr. Peacock's Scotter and its Manor'; 'Steele's "Christian Hero,' 999 by Mr. Solly; Extracts from Diaries of Early Travel, by Mr. J.

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Theodore Bent; and Miss Toulmin Smith's 'The House of Lords.' In a valuable contribution by Mr. Wheatley on 'The Fairies in Literature' there is no mention of the fairy poems, which are exquisite, of Sir John Mennis. In the "Antiquary's Note-Book" there is some useful information. Perhaps the funniest thing in the volume, which might almost serve to give it some day a place as a curiosity, is a memoir of W. J. Thoms in which no mention of N. & Q.' is made!

The Murder of Amy Robsart: a Brief for the Prosecu tion. By Walter Rye. (Elliot Stock.) IN behalf of the view that Amy Robsart was murdered by Leicester with the cognizance of Elizabeth Mr. Walter Rye writes convincingly and well, though avowedly as an advocate. His known erudition is brought to bear in this admirable pamphlet, which brings forward much new evidence, and is full of scandal against Queen Elizabeth. A more important contribution to history has seldom been made in pamphlet form. The whole is worthy of Mr. Rye's high reputation.

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tiquités Celtiques et Antédiluviennes' (Paris, Treuttel & Würtz), the second volume of which was not published till early in 1858. Unfortunately the lithographs with which the work was illustrated were on a small scale, and the outlines of the genuine works of art were accompanied by an overwhelming number of others representing purely natural forms of flints. English geology, accordingly, in taking stock of the unfinished work,* had no difficulty in rejecting the discoveries it announced as not less unsatisfactory than the theories it propounded.

The

NOTES: History of the Thames, 61-Black Mary's Hole, 62 -Deaths in 1885, 63-Robin Hood's Chapel-New Words in 1808, 64-Wyclif Society's 'De Civili Dominio '-Early Mention of Book-plates-Curious Surnames, 65-Burning for Heresy-Bird-lore-Johannes Adamus Transylvanus-Parliamentary Trains-Jaw, 66. QUERIES:-Collegium Grassinæum-Ordinance for Suppression of Stage Plays-Choice Notes-Stock-Author of Story-Caffling R. Mead and Jno. Wilkes-Welsh Fair, 67 -W. Woollett "Tabard Inn-Wentworth-Marriage Dinners at Town Halls-Stangni-Standing at Prayers Browne-Fictitious Names-Scotch Religious Houses-Dr. Henry King-Manors in England-Company of Mines-A Shepster""-Mrs. Parsons, 68-Bristol Pottery-Symonds: But "Facile est addere inventis" is a maxim of Hakluyt, &c.-Volume of Sermons-Dunstanborough Castle wide application. In 1854 Dr. Rigollot, of -Bridge of Sighs'-'Vathek -A. Colquhoun-" Leaps and bounds"-Castles-Sir T. Cornwallis, 69-Origin of Amiens, learnt that similar implements had been Saying-Prayer of Mary, Queen of Scots-Memoirs of D. found near that city, and in the following year O'Connell-Almanac Pentameters-Valor Ecclesiasticus' published an account of them accompanied by REPLIES:-Primitive Wedding, 70-"Ifs and Ands"-Must good illustrations. With the appearance of this Sepelivit nuptam," &c.-Golden Bottle-Conquer, 71-memoir all the innumerable particles of evidence, Colchester Castle-Bell of the Hop-Freemasonry-Duncan I. so long held in solution in the minds of men, -Lym-Books dedicated to Princess Victoria-Arms of Ox. ford Halls-Velvet and Fustian- The Tempest,' 72-8cotch began to crystallize into solid and definite shape. Names of Fishes-Wharton-"Our friend the enemy"-Two But the process was far from instantaneous. Epitaphs- Highland Kilt-When was Burns born? 73Garter Brasses-General Armstrong-Washington's An- question raised had a special interest for the anticestors-Author Wanted-Esquire, 74-Scales and Bardolf quary and anthropologist, but the evidence could -Docket-"Speech is silver "-Stilt-Crutch- Coronation Stone, 75-Touch-Jane Clermont-Filius populi"Vene- only be satisfactorily tested by the geological extian Glass, 76-"He kept throwing," &c.-Act of Union- pert. And, in England at least, the geological Irish Parliament-Commonplace Book-Omitted Reference, expert of the period as a rule objected to testing Walton-Campleshon Family-Horner-Fourteenth Cen- any evidence afforded by deposits so contemptibly tury Lease, 78-Son of a Sea Coote-Filius Del-Authors modern as mere quaternary river-drifts. I am NOTES ON BOOKS:-Cushing's 'Initials and Pseudonyms' not aware that the members of the Geological Sur-Ashton's Dawn of the Nineteenth Century Shirley vey ever actually formulated an anathema against the Glacial Period and all its works; but, at any rate, they habitually spoke of the Boulder Clay inveterate with contumely, and cherished an animosity against all post-pliocene formations. These troublesome new-comers, it was generally felt, had no business to obtrude themselves above the heads of the "good old county family" groups of primary, secondary, and tertiary rocks, and hide them out of sight. Nor was the prejudice in any way abated when the antiquary began to assert his interest in these recent clays and gravels and sands. It was disturbing the old landmarks and breaking down the fences of geology in the interest of trespassers, who might possibly be poachers also, from the adjoining manor of archæology. At all events, whether owing to any prejudices of the kind, or simply to the fact that the antiquary is generally a degree or two less sceptical than the geologist, the Amiens and Abbeville discoveries appear to have been carefully investigated by the former before the latter began to trouble his head about them. The names of Thomsen and Worsaae from Denmark, and of Dr. Thurnam, W. M. Wylie, and C. Roach Smith from England were duly inscribed in M. Boucher de Perthes's visitors'

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Hibberd's 'Golden Gates and Silver Steps.'

Notes.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO A HISTORY OF THE
THAMES.

CHAPTER IV.

Fortunately, "Qui cherche, trouve" is sometimes objectively as well as subjectively true. In 1841, while examining a bed of sand at the village of Menchecourt lez Abbeville, M. de Perthes found a flint implement really chipped by the hand of man, und closely resembling the then long-forgotten weapons found by Conyers and Frere. Shortly afterwards M. L. Cordier, of the Institute, wrote to him asking for a sample of the sand in the lowest bed of the Menchecourt drift. He accordingly had a barrow filled with sand from the undisturbed soil, some eighteen feet from the surface, and, examining it to see whether it contained any fossils, found, embedded in a hard sandy concretion, another drift implement, as perfect and with its edges as sharp as when it was first chipped. These, with innumerable later finds, many of them attested by formal procès-verbal on oath, are duly chronicled in his magnum opus, 'De l'Industrie Primitive,' the printing of which began in 1844,

but was not finished till 1846. This work reappeared in the following year as vol. i. of An

* Mantell, On the Remains of Man and Works of

Art imbedded in Rocks and Strata,' 1851.

+ Mémoire sur des Instruments en Silex Trouvés & St. Acheul près d'Amiens,' 1855.

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