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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: December 10, 2009 [EBook #30644]
Language: English
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{341} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 233.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1854.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Palindrome Verses 343
Children crying at their Birth 343
Unpublished Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. G. Bass 344
FOLK LORE:--Devonshire Superstitions--Quacks--Burning a
Tooth with Salt 344
Parallel Passages, by H. L. Temple, Cuthbert Bede, &c. 345
MINOR NOTES:--Vallancey's Green Book--Herrings--Byron and
Rochefoucauld--"Abscond"--Garlands, Broadsheets, &c.--
Life-belts--Turkey and Russia--"Verbatim et literatim" 347
QUERIES:--
Prints of London before the Great Fire 348
Battle of Otterburn, by J. S. Warden 348
De Beauvoir Pedigree, by T. R. Potter 349
MINOR QUERIES:--Dog-whippers: Frankincense--Atchievement in
Yorkshire: Lipyeatt Family--"Waestart"--Rebellion of 1715--
"Athenian
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