Replies to Minor Queries: Use of Slings by the Early
Britons Burial in Unconsecrated Ground - Et mo-
logy of Fetch and Haberdasher - Baxter's "Heavy
Shove," &c.-"We three"-Age of Trees - The
Diphthong "ai"- The Symbol of the Pelican-John
Hope Stoup-Flanagan on the Round Towers of
Ireland Giving the Sack - The Bells of Limerick
Cathedral - Mexican, &c. Grammar B shop Merri-
man-Birthplace of Andrew Marvell Anstis on
Seals-Foundation Stones-Milton indebted to Tacitus
-Plague Stones-Algernon Sidney-Edmund Bohun
-Declaration of Two Thousand Clergymen
Of future; in small room large heart inclos'd."
What authority there may be for the asserted physic-
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submit to our readers, merely reminding them that
Virgil has said the same thing of bees: at present we
quote the words of our great poet as descriptive of the
function and purpose which we have carried on through-
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Parliamentary phrase) present a Return upon this sub-
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