villages { Height 11 10
{ Diameter 33 5
{ Wall 4 0

J. Short distance west of Mount Elias { Height 6 0
{ Diameter 24 7
{ Wall 5 0

K. Between Elias and west coast { Height 6 6
{ Diameter 28 0
{ Wall 4 0

L. Naxos, south-east end of the island Height 50 0

M. Paros, north, port Naussa.
Of this tower only a few
courses of the stones are
left. It is however supposed
to have been of
the same dimensions as
that of Naxos."

W. W.

Malta.

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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.

_Songs and Rimes of Shakspeare._--I find in Mr. J. P. Collier's _History of
Dramatic Poetry_ (a work replete with dramatic lore and anecdote) the
following note in p. 275., vol. iii.:

"The Mitre and the Mermaid were celebrated taverns, which the poets,
wits, and gallants were accustomed to visit. Mr. Thorpe, the
enterprising bookseller of Bedford Street, is in possession of a
manuscript full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a person of
the name of Richard Jackson, all copied prior to the year 1631, and
including many unpublished pieces, by a variety of celebrated poets.
One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas, thus
headed: 'Shakespeare's Rime, which he made at the Mytre in Fleete
Streete.' It begins: 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of
the lines were published by Playford, and set as a catch. Another
shorter piece is called in the margin,--

'SHAKESPEARE'S RIME.

Give me a cup of rich Canary wine,
Which was the Mitres (drink) and now is mine;
Of which had Horace and Anacreon tasted,
Their lives as well as lines till now had lasted.'

"I have little doubt," adds Mr. Collier, "that the lines are genuine,
as well as many other songs and poems attributed to Ben Jonson, Sir W.
Raleigh, H. Constable, Dr. Donne, J. Sylvester, and others."

Who was the purchaser of this precious MS.? In this age of Shakspearian
research, when every newly discovered relic is