ion._--Could any of your correspondents kindly inform
me whether there is any foundation for the superstition, that if a
slow-worm be divided into two or more parts, those parts will continue to
live till sunset (life I suppose to mean that tremulous motion which the
divided parts, for some time after the cruel operation, continue to have),
and whether it exists in any other country or county besides Sussex, in
which county I first heard of it?

TOWER.

_Tangiers_ (Vol. vii., p. 12.).--I have not seen any opinion as to these
Queries.

A. C.

_Snail Gardens._--What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens?

C. M. T.

Oare.

_Naples and the Campagna Felice._--Who was the author of letters bearing
this title, which {34} originally appeared in Ackermann's _Repository_, and
were published in a collected form in 1815?

In a catalogue of Jno. Miller's (April, 1853), I see them attributed to
Combe.

Q.

Philadelphia.

"_The Land of Green Ginger_"--the name of a street in Hull. Can any of your
correspondents inform me why so called?

R. H. B.

_Mugger._--Why are the gipsies in the North of England called _Muggers?_ Is
it because they sell mugs, and other articles of crockery, that in fact
being their general vocation? or may not the word be a corruption of
_Maghrabee_, which is, I think, a foreign name given to this wandering
race?

H. T. RILEY.

_Snail-eating._--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what part of
Surrey a breed of large white snails is still to be found, the first of
which were brought to this country from Italy, by a member, I think, of the
Arundel family, to gratify the palate of his wife, an Italian lady? I have
searched Britton and Brayley's History in vain.

H. T. RILEY.

_Mysterious Personage._--Who is the mysterious personage, what is his real
or assumed lineage, who has, not unfrequently, been alluded to in recent
newspaper articles as a legitimate Roman Catholic claimant of the English
throne? Of course I do not allude to those _pseudo_-Stuarts, the brothers
Hay Allan.

W. PINKERTON.

_George Wood of Chester._--Of what family was George Wood, Esq., Justice of
Chester in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558?

CESTRIENSIS.

_A Scale of Vowel Sounds._--Can any correspondent tell me if such scale has
anywhere been agreed on for scientific purposes? Researches into the
philosophy of philology are rendered excessively complex by the want of
such