Yucatan,
there were several; and in Yucatan itself there was a stone cross. And
there an Indian, considered a prophet amongst his countrymen, had
declared that a nation bearing the same as a symbol should arrive from
a distant country! More extraordinary still was a temple, dedicated to
the Holy Cross by the Toltec nation in the city of Cholula. Near
Tulansingo there is also a cross engraved on a rock with various
characters, which the Indians by tradition ascribe to the Apostle St.
Thomas. In Oajaca, also, there existed a cross, which the Indians from
time immemorial had been accustomed to consider as a divine symbol. By
order of the Bishop Cervantes it was placed in a sumptuous chapel in
the cathedral. Information concerning its discovery, together with a
small cup, cut out of its wood, was sent to Rome to Paul V.; who
received it on his knees, singing the hymn 'Vexilla regis,' &c."--_Life
in Mexico_, by Madame Calderon de la Barca, Letter xxxvii.

E. H. A.

_Longevity_ (Vols. vii., viii., _passim_).--

"Amongst the fresh antiquities of Cornwall, let not the old woman be
forgotten who died about two years since; who was one hundred and
sixty-four years old, of good memory, and healthful at that age; living
in the parish of Gwithian by the charity of such as came purposely to
see her, speaking to them (in default of English) by an interpreter,
yet partly understanding it. She married a second husband after she was
eighty, {232} and buried him after he was eighty years of
age."--Scawens' _Dissertation on the Cornish Tongue_, written temp.
Car. II.

ANON.

As very many, if not all, the instances mentioned in "N. & Q." of those who
have reached a very advanced age, were people of humble origin, may we not
now refer to those of noble birth? To commence the list, I would name Sir
Ralph de Vernon, "who is said to have lived to the age of one hundred and
fifty, and thence generally was called the Old Liver." My authority is,
Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, edit. 1848, p. 1009.

W. W.

Malta.

"_Nugget_" (Vol. viii., pp. 375. 481.).--A note from Mundy's _Our
Antipodes_:

"The word _nugget_, among farmers, signifies a small compact beast, a
runt: among gold-miners a lump, in contradistinction to the scale or
dust-gold."

CLERICUS RUSTICUS.

_The fifth Lord Byron_ (Vol. ix., p. 18.).--I believe it to be an
a