gle expression,
but in every one. The Chaldee hymn has the ink and ocean, parchment and
heavens, stalks and quills, mankind and scribes, &c. Pray do me the favour
to insert the original lines. I assure you that they are well worthy of a
place in "N. & Q." Here they are:

[Hebrew: GBWRAN `ALMIYN LEIYH WLA' SIPEIQ PRIYSHWTA':]
[Hebrew: GWIYL 'ILW RQIY`EIY QNY KAL CHWRSHATA':]
[Hebrew: DYWO 'ILW YAMEIY WKAL MEIY KNIYSHWTA':]
[Hebrew: DAYREIY 'AR`A' SAPREIY WRASHMEIY RASHWATA':]

MOSES MARGOLIOUTH.

Wybunbury.

In the _Des Knaben Wunderhorn_ there is something of the same idea, though
not quite to the same purpose:

"Und wenn der Himmel papyrige waer,
Und e jede Sterne Schryber waer,
Und jedere Schryber hat siebesiebe Hand,
Ei schriebe doch alli mir Liebi Kesend!
Dursli und Babeli."

G. H. R.

* * * * *

WHAT DAY IS IT AT OUR ANTIPODES?

(Vol. viii., p. 102.)

This question was asked by H., and at p. 479. an answer to it was
undertaken by ESTE. But, probably from over-anxiety to be very brief, ESTE
was betrayed into a most strange and unaccountable misstatement, which
ought to be set right before the conclusion of the volume; since, if
correctness be generally desirable in all communications to "N. & Q.," it
is absolutely indispensable in professed answers to required information.
ESTE says:

"A person sailing to our Antipodes westward will lose twelve hours; by
sailing thither eastward he will gain twelve hours."

This is quite correct. But if one person lose twelve, and another gain
twelve, the manifest difference between them is twenty-four; and yet ESTE
goes on to say:

"If both meet together at the same hour, say eleven o'clock, the one
will reckon 11 A.M., the other 11 P.M."

This is the misstatement. No two persons, by any correct system of
reckoning, could arrive at a result which would imply a physical
impossibility; and it is needless to say that the concurrence of A.M. and
P.M. at the same time and place would come under that designation. What
ESTE should have said is, that both persons meeting {649} together on the
same day, if it be reckoned Monday by the one, it will be reckoned Tuesday
by the other. They may differ as to Monday or Tuesday, but they cannot
rationally differ as to whether it is day or night.

It may be added that, no matter where these two persons might meet, whether
at the Antipodes or at any oth