onius Arbiter, cap. 75.?
Pope had certainly both read and admired the _Satyricon_, for he
says:--

"Fancy and art in gay Petronius please,
The scholar's learning with the courtier's ease."

_Essay on Criticism_, sect. 3

I find no note on the lines either in the edition of Warton, 9 vols.
8vo., London, 1797, or in Cary's royal 8vo., London, 1839; but the
similarity strikes me as curious, and deserving further examination.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

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BELVOIR CASTLE.

In Nichol's _History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester_, vol.
ii., part i., containing the Framland Hundred, p. 45 of the folio ed.
1795, occurs the following quotation, in reference to the rebuilding of
Belvoir castle by Henry, second Earl of Rutland, in 1555:--

"That part of the more ancient building, which was left by both
unaltered, is included in the following concise description by an
ingenious writer, who visited it in 1722:--

'AEdes in culmine montis sitae, scilicet,
[Greek: aipeia kolonen
En pedio apaneuthe, peridromos entha kai entha]'

aditu difficilis circa montem; cujus latera omnia horti 50 acrarum
circumeunt, nisi versus Aquilonem, quo ascenditur ad ostium aedium
ubi etiam antiqua jauna arcuato lapide. Versus Occidentem 8
fenestrae et 3 in sacello; et ulterior pars vetusta. Versus
Aquilonem 10 fenestrae. Facies Australis et Turris de _Staunton_, in
qui archiva familiae reponuntur, extructa ante annos circa 400. Pars
restat kernellata," &c. &c. &c.

The description goes on for a few more lines; but it matters not to
continue them. I should be much obliged by any of your readers giving an
account of who this "ingenious writer" was, and on what authority he
founded the foregoing observations, as it is a subject of much interest
to me and others at the present time.

ALYTHES.

Jan. 28. 1850.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_MSS. formerly belonging to Dr. Hugh Todd_.--I shall feel most grateful
to any of your correspondents who can afford me any information, however
imperfect, respecting the MSS. of Dr. Hugh Todd, Vicar of Penrith, and
Prebendary of Carlisle, in the beginning of the last century. In the
_Cat. MSS. Angliae_, &c., 1697, is a catalogue of nineteen MSS, then in
his possession, five of which are especially the subject of the present
in