about the beginning
of this century. The scene, if I remember rightly, is laid in the parish of
Forgue, in Aberdeenshire. Possibly some of the members of the Spalding Club
may be able to enlighten me on the subject.

BATHENSIS.

_"Keiser Glomer."_--I have a Danish play entitled _Keiser Glomer, Frit
oversatte af det Kyhlamske vech C. Bredahl_: Kiobenhavn, 1834. It is a
mixture of tragedy and farce: the former occasionally good, the latter poor
buffoonery. In the notes, readings of the old MS. are referred to with
apparent seriousness; but _Gammel Gumba's Saga_ is quoted in a manner that
seems burlesque. I cannot find the word "Kyhlam" in any dictionary. Can any
of your readers tell me whether it signifies a real country, or is a mere
fiction? The work does not read like a translation; and, if one, the number
of modern allusions show that it is not, as it professes to be, from an
ancient manuscript.

M. M. E.

_Tieck's Comoedia Divina._--I copied the following lines six years ago from
a review in a Munich newspaper of Batornicki's _Ungoettliche Comoedie_. They
were cited as from Tieck's suppressed (zurueckgezogen) satire, _La Comoedie
Divina_, from which Batornicki was accused of plundering freely, thinking
that, from its variety, he would not be detected:

"Spitzt so hoch ihr koennt euer Ohr,
Gar wunderbare Dinge kommen hier vor.
Gott Vater identifieirt sich mit der Kreatur,
Denn er will anschauen die absolute Natur;
Aber zum Bewustseyn kann er nicht gedeihen,
Drum muss er sich mit sich selbst entzweien."

I omitted to note the paper, but preserved the lines as remarkable. I have
since tried to find some account of _La Divina Comedia_, but in vain. It is
not noticed in any biography of Tieck. Can any of your readers tell me what
it is, or who wrote it?

M. M. E.

_Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez_--_Stream like that in Bay of
Argastoli._--Can any of your readers oblige me by stating where the best
information may be met with concerning the very remarkable fossil trees on
the way from Cairo to Suez? And, if there has yet been discovered any other
stream or rivulet running from the ocean into the land similar to that in
the Bay of Argastoli in the Island of Cephalonia?

H. M.

_Presbyterian Titles_ (Vol. v., p. 516.).--Where may be found a list of
"the quaint and uncouth titles of the old Presbyterians?"

P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.

_Mayors and Sheriffs._--Can you or any of your readers inform