iately deliver the key to M.G., as it commonly
happens that foreigners are waiting for it. A certificate must be
likewise delivered, declaring that the afore-mentioned regulations have
been exactly executed. It is likewise proper and just to reward M. Gem.
for the expense of moveables, money, &c, &c., and for the advantage
travellers may get to examine the Volcan, for better than Empedocli,
Amodei, Fazelli, Brydon, Spallanzani, and great many others. M. Gemm.
has lately been authorized to deny the key whenever is unkindly
requested. He is also absolutely obliged to inform the gen. of the
army, who is determined to punish with rigour their insolence."

_Mount Sinai._--(On the fly-leaf of the travellers' book.)

"Here in too were inscribed as in one legend, all whose in the rule of
the year come from different parts, different cities and countries,
pilgrims and travellers of any different rank and religion or
profession, for advise and notice thereof to their posterity, and even
also in owr own of memory acknowledging. 1845, Mount Sinai."

VIATOR.

[Footnote 1: The name of this gentleman will be recognised by some of the
readers of NOTES AND QUERIES as that of a most indefatigable explorer of
the wonders of the mountain, and the author, in the _Transactions of the
Catanian Academy_., of excellent descriptions of its recent eruptions.]

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FOLK LORE.

_May-dew._--Every one has heard of the virtues of "May-dew," but perhaps
the complex superstition following may be less generally known. A
respectable tradesman's wife in this town (Launceston) tells me that the
poor people here say that a swelling in the neck may be cured by the
patient's going _before sunrise_, on the 1st of May, to the grave of the
last young man who has been buried in the church-yard, and applying the
dew, gathered by passing the hand _three times_ from the {475} head to the
foot of the grave, to the part affected by the ailment.[2] This was told me
yesterday in reply to a question, whether the custom of gathering "May-dew"
is still prevailing here. I may as well add, that the common notion of
improving the complexion by washing the face with the early dew in the
fields on the 1st of May extensively prevails in these parts; and they say
that a child who is weak in the back may be cured by drawing him over the
grass wet with the morning dew. The experiment