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MINOR QUERIES:--Mediæval Parchment--"Mater ait natæ"--Fox of Whittlebury Forest--Names and Numbers of British Regiments--Daughters of St. Mark--Kentish Fire--Optical Phenomenon--Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of England--Remarkable Signs--Old Fable--Tide Tables--Passage in...
MINOR QUERIES:--Mediæval Parchment--"Mater ait natæ"--Fox of Whittlebury Forest--Names and Numbers of British Regiments--Daughters of St. Mark--Kentish Fire--Optical Phenomenon-...
2. Part 2Had our reviewer stepped in at Dunnett's toy-shop, instead of searching all his French dictionaries, he would have learned, I doubt not, that bandalore is still a living toy, ju...
3. Part 3_A Race for Canterbury._--I have just met with a little volume of sixteen pages entitled _A Race for Canterbury or Lambeth, Ho!_ It is dated 1747, and was evidently written on t...
4. Part 4"I have just discovered a process upon glass by hydrofluoric ether, the fluoride of potassium, and soda dissolved in alcohol 40°, mixed with sulphuric ether, and afterwards satu...
5. Part 5_Confirmation Superstition_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--It is singular, that though the office is called "the laying on of _hands_," the rubric says, "the bishop shall lay his _hand_...
6. Part 6H. Blair Avarne, Esq. E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., F.S.A., _Resident_. C. Berwick Curtis, Esq. William Fairlie, Esq. D. Q. Henriques, Esq. J. G. Henriques, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq. Wi...