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l who knew him well, could always recognise. That eminent prelate thus sums up the fate of the sole publication of the so-called Catholic Bible Society: "Its stereotype Testament ... was proved to abound in gross errors; hardly a copy of it could be sold; and, in the end, the plates for continuing it have been of late presented by an illustrious personage, into whose hands they fell, to one of our prelates [this was Bishop Collingridge], who will immediately employ the cart-load of them for a good purpose, as they were intended to be, by disposing of them to some pewterer, who will convert them into numerous useful culinary implements, gas-pipes, and other pipes." F. C. H. _Cassiterides_ (Vol. ix., p. 64.).--Kassiteros; the ancient Indian Sanscrit word _Kastira_. Of the disputed passage in Herodotus respecting the Cassiterides, the interpretation[7] of Rennell, in his _Geographical System of Herodotus_; of Maurice, in his _Indian Antiquities_, vol. vi.; and of Heeren, in his _Historical Researches_; is much more satisfactory than that offered by your correspondent S. G. C., although supported by the French academicians (_Inscript._ xxxvi. 66.) The advocates for a Celtic origin of the name of these islands are perhaps not aware that-- "Through the intercourse which the Phoenicians, by means of their factories in the Persian Gulph, maintained with the east coast of India, the Sanscrit word _Kastira_, expressing a most useful product of farther India, and still existing among the old Aramaic idioms in the Arabian word _Kasdir_, became known to the Greeks even before Albion and the British Cassiterides had been visited."--See Humboldt's _Cosmos_, "Principal Epochs in the History of the Physical Contemplation of the Universe," notes. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. [Footnote 7: His want of information in this matter can only be referred to the jealousy of the Phoenicians depriving the Greeks, as afterwards the Romans, of ocular observation.] _Wooden Tombs and Effigies_ (Vol. ix., p. 62.).--There are two fine recumbent figures of a Lord Neville and his wife in Brancepeth Church, four miles south-west of Durham. They are carved in wood. A view of them is given in Billing's _Antiquities of Durham_. J. H. B. _Tailless Cats_ (Vol. ix., p. 10.).--In my visits to the Isle of Man, I have frequently met with {112} specimens of the tailless ca
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