ecutus
est; cujus corpus Octavilla matrona noctu sustulit, et unguentis
delibutum via Aurelia sepelivit."

Amongst the reliques in the church of St. John of Laterane, in the "the
glorious mother-city of Rome," Onuphrius (de VII. Urbis Ecclesiis) and
Serranus (de Ecclesiis Urbis Rom.), as quoted by Wm. Crashaw (temp. James
I.), enumerate:

"Item. caput Zachariae Prophetae, et caput Sancti Pancratii de quo
sanguis emanavit ad tres dies quum Ecclesia Lateranensis combusta
fuit."

COWGILL.

_Joseph Nicolson's Family_ (Vol. iii., p. 243.).--A. N. C. is justly
corrected as to the insertion of the letter _h_ in Dr. Wm. Nicolson's name,
though it has been adopted by some of his family since. The mother of Dr.
Wm. and Joseph Nicolson was Mary Brisco, of Crofton; not Mary Miser.

I find from _Nichols' Correspondence of Dr. Wm. Nicolson_, that his brother
Joseph was master of the Apothecaries' Company in London. He died in May,
1724. He lived in Salisbury Court, where it would appear the Bishop resided
at least on one occasion that he was in London.

MONKSTOWN.

_Demosthenes and New Testament_ (Vol. iii., p. 350.).--The quotations from
Demosthenes, and many others more or less pointed, are to be found, as
might be expected, in the well-known, very learned, and standard edition of
the new Testament by Wetstein.

C. B.

_Crossing Rivers on Skins_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--To the _Latin_ authors
cited by JANUS DOUSA illustrating this practice, allow me to add the
following from the Greek. Xenophon, in his _Anabasis_, lib. iii. cap. v.,
so clearly exhibits the _modus operandi_, that I shall give a translation
of the passage:

"And while they were at a loss what to do, a certain Rhodian came up
and said, 'I am ready to ferry you over, O men! by 4000 heavy armed men
at a {398} time, if you furnish me with what I want, and will give me a
talent as a reward.' And being asked of what he stood in need:--'I
shall want,' said he, '2000 leathern bags; and I see here many sheep,
and goats, and oxen, and asses; which, being flayed, and (their skins)
inflated, would readily furnish a means of transport. And I shall
require also the girths, which you use for the beasts of burden. And on
these,' said he, 'having bound the leathern bags, and fastened them one
to another, and affixing stones, and letting them down like anchors,
and binding them on either side, I will lay on wood,