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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Author: Various

Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32495]

Language: English

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{361} 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. 80.]
SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1851..
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

Page

The Great Exhibition, Notes and Queries, and Chaucer's
Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace 361

NOTES:--
On "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" 364

Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm
Digby 367

Folk-Lore:--The Christmas Thorn--Milk-maids--Disease
cured by Sheep--Sacramental Wine--"Nettle in Dock out" 367

Metropolitan Improvements, by R. J. King 368

Minor Notes:--Meaning of Luncheon--Charade upon
Nothing translated--Giving the Lie--Anachronisms
of Painters--Spenser's Faerie Queene--Prayer of
Mary Queen of Scots--A small Instance of Warren
Hastings' Magnanimity--Richard Baxter--Registry
of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches 369

QUERIES:--
Notes and Queries relating to Scandinavia, by W. E. C.
Nourse 370

The Rotation of the Earth, by Robert Snow 371

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