Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

MINOR QUERIES:--Prophecy in Hoveden--A Skating Problem-- "Rap and read for"--"The wee brown Hen"--Deprived Bishops of Scotland, 1638--Passage in Carlyle--Madagascar Poetry--Ink--Hamilton Queries--Derivation of Windfall--Do the Sun's Rays put out the Fire?--Denmark and Slavery-...