d _Grog_ derives its name."

W.H.S.

[The gallant correspondent to whom we are indebted for the
foregoing satisfactory, because early and documentary, evidence of
the etymology of the now familiar term GROG, informs us that there
is a still earlier ballad on the subject. We trust that he will be
enabled to recover that also, and put it on record in our columns.]

_Barnacles_.--In a _Chorographical Description of West, or Il-Jar
Connaught_, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, Esq., 1684, published by the Irish
Archaeological Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus mentioned:--

"There is the bird engendered by the sea out of timber long lying
in the sea. Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some
puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them. We call
them _girrinn_."

Martin, in his _Western Isles of Scotland_, says:--

"There are also the _cleek geese_. The shells in which this fowl is
said to be produced, are found in several isles sticking to trees
by the bill; of this kind I have seen many,--the fowl was covered
by a shell, and the head stuck to the tree by the bill,--but never
saw any of them with life in them upon the tree; but the natives
told me that they had observed them to move with the heat of the
sun."--See also Gratianus, Lucius, Ware's _Antiquities_, &c.

Eating sea-birds on fast days is a very ancient custom. Socrates
mentions it in the 5th century: "Some along with fish eat also birds,
saying, that according to Moses, birds like fish were created out of the
waters." Mention is made in Martin's _Western Isles_, of a similar
reason for eating _seals_ in Lent. _Cormorants_, "as feeding only on
fish," were allowable food on fast days, as also were _otters_.

CEREDWYN.

_Vondel's Lucifer_.--I cannot inform your correspondent F. (No. 9 p.
142.), whether Vondel's _Lucifer_ has ever been translated into English,
but he will find reasons for its not being worth translating, in the
_Foreign Quarterly Review_ for April, 1829, where the following passage
occurs:--

"Compare with him Milton, for his _Lucifer_ gives the fairest means
of comparison. How weak are his highest flights compared with those
of the bard of Paradise! and how much does Vondel sink beneath him
in his failures! Now and then the same thought may be found in
both, but the points of resemblance are not in passages