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ngs in succession who married the daughters of their own subjects, and those only of the degree of knights; namely, David Bruce, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Loggie; Robert II., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure; and Robert III., who married Annabell, daughter to Sir John Drummond of Stobhall. SCOTUS. * * * * * GRAY'S ELEGY.--DRONING.--DODSLEY'S POEMS. (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 301.) I only recur to the subject of Gray's Elegy to remark, that although your correspondents, A HERMIT AT HAMPSTEAD, and W.S., have given me a good deal of information, for which I thank them, they have not answered either of my Queries. I never doubted as to the true reading of the third line of the second stanza of Gray's Elegy, but merely remarked that in one place the penultimate word was printed _drony_, and other authorities _droning_. With reference to this point, what I wanted to know was merely, whether, in any good annotated edition of the poem, it had been stated that when Dodsley printed it in his _Collection of Poems_, 1755, vol. iv., the epithet applied to flight was _drony_, and not _droning_? I dare say the point has not escaped notice; but if it have, the fact is just worth observation. Next, any doubt is not at all cleared up respecting the date of publication of Dodsley's Collection. The Rev. J. Mitford, in his Aldine edition of Gray, says (p. xxxiii.) that the first three volumes came out in 1752, whereas my copy of "the _second edition_" bears the date of 1748. Is that the true date, or do editions vary? If the second edition came out in 1748, what was the date of the first edition? I only put this last question because, as most people are aware, some poems of note originally appeared in Dodsley's _Collection of Poems_, and it is material to ascertain the real year when they first came from the press. THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT. * * * * * REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. _Zuendnadel Guns_ (Vol. ii., p. 247.).--JARLTZBERG "would like to know when and by whom they were invented, and their mechanism." To describe mechanism without diagrams is both tedious and difficult; but I shall be happy to show JARLTZBRG one of them in my possession, if he will favour me with a call,--for which purpose I inclose my address, to be had at your office. The principle is, to load at the breach, and the cartridge contains the priming, which is ign
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