ad this with an accent on the
penultima. I never observed any of those who read Sabaoth, Zabulon, and
sabachthani, read either Samaria or Cesarea. The Greek accents on Hebrew
words always accord, as Hebraists know, with the tonic accent in that
language.

E. C. H.

As a contribution to the desirable object of settling the pronunciation of
the words mentioned, the following representation of their pronunciation in
the originals is offered. The vowels are to be read as in Italian, the _th_
as in English, and the _hh_ as _ch_ in German:

Hebrew. Sabaoth = ts[)i]-v[=a]-['=o]th.

Hebrew. [The] Moriah = [h[)a]m-]m['=o]-r[=i]-y['=a]h.

Syriac. Aceldama = hh[)i]-k[')a]l-d[)i]-m['=a].

Syro-Chaldee. Eli Eli lamma sabachthani = [=e]-l['=i] [=e]l['=i]
l[)a]m-m['=a] s[)a]-b[')a]hh-t[)a]-n['=i], as in Matthew; or
[)e]-l['=o]-h[=i], as in Mark.

Chaldee. Abednego = [)a]-ved n[)i]-g['=o].

The _conventional_ pronunciation given by Walker is perhaps best adapted to
English ears, which would be quite repulsed by an attempt to restore the
ancient pronunciation of such familiar words, for instance, as Jacob,
Isaac, Job, and Jeremiah.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield.

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LORD HALIFAX AND CATHERINE BARTON.

(Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.)

One has some doubt, in reading PROFESSOR DE MORGAN'S article on the above
subject, what inference is to be drawn from it. If it is to prove a private
marriage between Halifax and Mrs. Barton, on the strength of the date on
the watch at the Royal Society being falsified, it is a failure. I have
examined that watch since PROFESSOR DE MORGAN published his Note, and can
testify most decidedly that, if anything, the inscription is older than the
case, nor is there a vestige of anything like unfair alteration; and any
one accustomed to engraving would arrive at the same conclusion. The
outside case is beautifully chased in Louis Quatorze style: but the inner
case, on which the inscription is graven, has no need of such elaborate
work, nor is such work ever introduced on the inside of watches; they are
invariably smooth.

And all that is noticeable in the present instance is, that the writing has
lost the sharpness of the graver by use, or returning it into its case; or
more probably the case has not been used at all, being cumbersome and set
aside as a curious work of art, which indeed it is.

The date on the watch is 1708, and PROFE