a smart box on the ear. {45}

C. M.

[Buckhorse was a celebrated bruiser, whose name has been
preserved in this designation of a blow, in the same way as that
of his successor "Belcher" has been in that of the peculiar
style of silk handkerchief which he always wore.]

_Symbols of Four Evangelists._--Among the several replies to JARTZBERG'S
Query (Vol. i., p. 385.), I do not observe any notice of Sir T. Brown's
account of the symbols of the four Evangelists. I will therefore copy
part of a note I have on the subject, though see it is unfortunately
without any other reference than the _name_ of the author.

After giving _Jonathan's_ opinion of the four principal or legionary
standards among the Israelites, Sir T. Brown adds:

"But Abenegra and others, besides the colours of the field, do
set down other charges,--in Reuben's, the form of a man or
mandrake,--in that of Judah, a lion,--in Ephraim's, an ox; in
Dan's, the figure of an eagle. And thus, indeed, the four
figures in the banners of the principal squadrons of Israel are
answerable unto the Church in the vision of Ezekiel, every one
carrying the form of all these.... And conformable hereunto, the
pictures of the Evangelists (whose Gospels are the Christian
banners) are set forth with the addition of a man or angel, an
ox, a lion, and an eagle. And these symbolically represent the
office of angels and ministers of God's will, in whom is
required, understanding as in a man, courage and vivacity as in
a lion, service and ministerial officiousness as in the ox,
expedition or celerity of execution as in the eagle."

J. SANSOM.

_Catacombs and Bone-houses_ (Vol. i. p. 171.).--Part I. of a _History of
the Hundred of Rowell_ by Paul Cypher (published by J. Ginns, Rowell,)
has recently fallen in my way, and as I understand the writer is a
medical gentleman residing in the village (or town), I condense from the
account of the "Bone Caverns," p. 39-42., such particulars as may answer
the Query of Rev. A. Gatty.

The number of skeletons, as is asserted by those who have taken the
trouble to calculate, is 30,000. The vault in which they are deposited
is a long cryptiform structure, with a low groined roof, and the bones
are carefully packed in alternate strata of skulls, arms, legs, and so
forth. They seem to have been discovered by a gravedigger about 150
yea