Rachel. In the Oxford Bible (various editions), I note that in Jeremiah xxxi., 15, the name of Rachel is printed Rahel," though when this prophecy is quoted in Mathew 1, 17, it is printed "Rachel." The American Bibles, so far as examined, have " Rachel " in both places.

Can this

be a typographical error in the Oxford, which they continue to repeat? S. N.

Philadelphia, February 27, 1869.

Mark for a Dollar.-" T. C. " inquires in No. 5 of the Bipliopolist, under the head of Notes and Queries, What is the origin of a mark for a dollar? I have been informed that as these dollars were United States dollars it was originally designed to have the U and S combined as a sign; this union may be very easily made by drawing

a downward curved line from the bottom of one of the two upright parallel lines crossing the letter S to the bottom of the others. Opelosas, La.

J. P.

answer

to

More's Utopia. Further "J H.," Philadelphia, 24th Feb., p. 90. The Utopia was originally written in Latin; and apparently but a few copies were first printed by Theodore Martin, and used as gift copies, or for friendly examination and correction.

These may have had the date 1516 indicated. They may be called the first edition. The work may have been written while More was at Antwerp from May to December, 1515, but perhaps was not completed until after his return to England, and manuscripts then sent to Antwerp.

The copies printed by Martin, when they appeared in England, were disclaimed by More as having been made by his friends from the manuscripts without his participation or sanction, containing errors, etc. We suppose he had not corrected the proofs and did not like the alphabet, etc., put in at Antwerp. He was informed of the demand for the book, and being requested so to do, he united in getting up a corrected edition for sale. The introductory epistle to Egidius in the second edition (usually called the first edition)—an important part of it-excuses his delay in sending it "well nigh after a year's space"-which must have been looked for within a month," etc. This was printed by Froben, date 1518, and illustrated by Holbein. It is really the most valuable edition intrinsically; although the other as a rare and curious book, with its alphabet,

A Traveller informs us that Baron A. von Humboldt urges further search after this expedition in the Welsh records. He thinks the passage is in the Examin Critique.

In reference to the discovery of America by Madoc, pp. 7, 12, 25, 57, it may amuse your readers to be informed that Seneca shadows forth such a discovery:

"Venient annis sæcula seris

Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus,
Ichthysque novos deteget orbes;
Nec sit terris ultima Thule."

Medea, act ii. ad finem, v. 375. "A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America." It is certainly a curious passage. C.

At p. 57, "Anglo-Cambrian" refers to the report of the Proceedings of the British Association at Swansea, in Aug. 1848, extracted from the Athenæum newspaper. In the course of a discussion which took place on Prof. Elton's address, it was observed (if 1

recollect rightly) by the learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabulary of the so-called Welsh-Indian dialect has been formed, and that it contains no trace of any Celtic root. December 10, 1849. J. M. T. Lord Chatham's Speech on the American Stamp Act.-When I read the question of your correspondent (in No. 1, p. 12,) on this subject, I saw at once its importance; for, if my Lord Brougham's statements were correct, our historians must forthwith re-write a somewhat important chapter in our history. I felt assured, however, that it was not correct; and the result of a somewhat tedious search

is as I had anticipated. His lordship had made an error in the date, and 1764 should be 1766. The authority, not acknowledged by his lordship was, no doubt, the Parliamentary History of 1766 (vol. xvi. p. 96), where your correspondent will find the statement, which of course, the date being correctly given, contains nothing that is not consistC. ent with known facts.

BURNING THE DEAD.

T.

Browne's Hydriotaphia, chap. i., which appears to favour his view except in the following extract:

"The same practice extended also far west, and be sides Heruleans, Getes, and Thracians, was in use with most of the Celta, Sarmatians, Germans, Gauls,

Danes, Swedes, Norwegians; not to omit some use thereof among Carthaginians, and Americans.”

The Carthaginians most probably received the custom from their ancestors the Phænicians, but where did the Americans get it? HENRY ST. CHAD,

Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone, Feb. 8, 1850.

Memoirs of an American Lady.-Are the Memoirs of an American Lady out of print? They were written by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, the authoress of Letters from the Mountains, and of whom some very interesting memoirs have lately been published by her

son.

NEMO.

America known to the Ancients.—I have a note on the following references, as illustrating the passage quoted by "C." (No. 7, p. 107), and countenancing the idea that the existence of America was at least suspected As I have not had an opby the ancients. portunity of consulting the authorities myself, I cannot tell how far they may affect the point in question; and I fear the references are not as accurate as might be wished, but I shall be truly glad if they prove at all useful:Diodorus Siculus, Bibl. lib. iv. pp. 299, 300. edit. Rhodoman; Apuleius, De Mund. Oper. vol. ii. p. 122; Avitus in Senec. Suasor.; Horn, De Origin. Americ. lib. i. c. G. WILLIAM SKYRING.

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