artita Historia_, cap. ii. fol. 3.

W. G. S.

_Medal of Stukeley._--In answer to Mr. BRITTON'S Queries (Vol. i., p. 122.,
and Vol. ii., p. 40.), I beg to inform him that the medal of Stukeley was
executed soon after that eminent antiquary's death by an artist of the name
of Gaal, who was not a die-sinker, but a modeller and chaser. The medal is
rare, but not unique: I have one in my own collection, and I have, I think,
seen one or two others. They are all cast in a mould and chased.

EDW. HAWKINS

June 13. 1850.

_Dulcarnon_ (Vol. i., p. 254.).--Has _Dulcarnon_ any reference to the
Hindostanee _Dhoulcarnein_, two-horned,--the epithet constantly applied in
India to Alexander the Great, or Iskander, as they call him? It seems not a
bad word for a dilemma or puzzle.

H. W.

Nottingham.

_Practice of Scalping_.--Your correspondent T. J. will find in Mr. Layard's
_Nineveh and its Remains_ (vol. ii. p. 374.) the following note:--

"The Scythians _scalped_ and flayed their enemies, and used their skins
as horse trappings."--_Herod._ iv. 64.

G. R.

Greenock.

_Scalping._--Perhaps your correspondent T. J. (Vol. ii., p. 12.) may
recollect the allusion to "scalping," in Psalm lxviii. 21.; upon which
verse an argument has been based in favour of the supposition, that the
aborigines of America are derived from the ten tribes of Israel.

J. SANSOM.

_Derivation of Penny_ (Vol. i., pp. 384. 411.).--Akerman's _Numismatic
Manual_ (p. 228.) has, under the head of "Penny," the following remarks:--

"The penny is next in antiquity. It is first mentioned in the laws of
Ina. The term has been derived by various writers from almost every
European language; but the conjecture of Wachter, as noticed by Lye,
seems the most reasonable. This writer derives it from the Celtic word
_pen_, head; the heads of the Saxon princes being stamped on the
earliest pennies. The fact of the _testoon_ of later times having been
so named, certainly adds weight to the opinion of Wachter."

W. G. S.

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Miscellanies.

"_By Hook or by Crook_" (Vol. i., p. 405.).--The following extract may,
perhaps, by multiplying instances, tend to corroborate the supposed origin
of the above saying:--

"Not far from them [Peverell's Crosses], in the parish of Egloshayle,
is another moonstone [granite] cross near Mount Charles, called the
Prior's Cross, on which is cu