West_, in regard of
the western situation of it from these parts of Europe; and
_Indies_, either as mistook for some part of India at the first
discovery, or else because the seamen use to call all countries,
if remote and rich, by the name of _India_."--_Heylyn's
Cosmography_, 1677, Book iv., sub initio.

It is almost needless to mention, that India received {492} its name
from the river _Indus_; and that _Indus_ and [Greek: Indos] are the
Roman and Greek forms of _Sindo_, the name it was known by among the
natives.

HENRY KERSLEY.
Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone.

[We have received many other replies to this Query, referring
"NORTHMAN" to Robertson's _History of America_, and Humboldt's
_Aspects, &c._, vol. ii. p. 319.]

_Vox Populi Vox Dei_ (No. 20. p. 321.).--Your correspondent "QUAESITOR"
asks for the origin of the saying _Vox populi Vox Dei_. Warwick, in his
_Spare Minutes_ (1637), says--

"That the voice of the common people is the voice of God, is the
common voice of the people; yet it is as full of falsehood as
commonnesse. The cry before Pilate's judgement-seat, 'Let him be
crucified,' was _vox populi_, 'the cry of all the people.' How
far was it the voice of God?"

M.

[Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, in his valuable _Essay on the Influence
of Authority in Matters of Opinion_, p. 172., has some very
interesting remarks upon this proverb, which, "in its original
sense, appears to be an echo of some of the sentences in the
classical writers, which attribute a divine or prophetic
character to common fame or rumour." See pp. 172, 173., and the
accompanying Notes.]

_Dutch Language_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--"E.V." will find Holtrop's
_Dictionary_ in 2 vols. one of the best. Werninck's _Pocket Dictionary_
is very good: also Tauchnitz's _Dutch and French_ (pocket): also
Picard's _English and Dutch_. Jansen's is not bad. Swier's _Grammar_ is
a good one; but I do not know whether there is any late edition. See
Williams and Norgate, or Quaritch.

AREDJID KOOEZ.

[Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly answered this
Query, by the following list:--

PYL (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the Dutch Language,
8vo. Rotterd. 1826, 8s.

AHN (F.) Neue hollaendische Sprachlehre nebst Lesestucke, 12mo.
Cref. 1841, 2s.

AHN (F) hollaendische Umgangsprache, 12mo. 1846, 1s. 6d.

PICARD (H.) A new