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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. IV.--NO. 112--SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1851.

Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._




CONTENTS.

                                                                Page


      NOTES:--

      Wady Mokatteb identified with Kibroth Hattavah, by
      the Rev. Moses Margoliouth                                 481

      On a Passage in Goldsmith, by Henry H. Breen               482

      Minor Notes:--Biographical Dictionary--The Word
      Premises--Play of George Barnwell--Traditions from
      Remote Periods through few Links                           483

      QUERIES:--

      Deodands and their Application, by Jonathan Peel           484

      Minor Queries:--Hell paved with the Skulls of
      Priests--Charib--Thumb Bible--Tripos--Louis Philippe
      and his Bag of Nails--Brass Statues at Windsor--Edmund
      Bohun--Bishop Trelawney                                    484

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Companion Ladder--Macaulay's
      Ballad of the Battle of Naseby                             485

      REPLIES:--

      The Crucifix as used by the Early Christians, by
      J. Emerson Tennent                                         485

      The Word "[Greek: Adelphos]." by T. R. Brown               486

      The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607                      487

      Replies to Minor Queries:--Hobbes's "Leviathan"--Age
      of Trees--Treatise against Equivocation--Lycian
      Inscriptions--Alterius Orbis Papa--Carmagnoles--General
      James Wolfe--Johannes Trithemius--Sir   William
      Herschel--Dr. Wm. Wall--Parish Registers--Compositions
      during the Protectorate--General Moyle--Descendants
      of John of Gaunt--Church of St. Bene't Fink--Coins
      of Vabalathus--Engraved Portrait--"Cleanliness is next
      to godliness"--Cozens the Painter--Whig and Tory--Prince
      Rupert's Drops--Deep Well near Bansted Downs--Mrs. Mary
      Anne Clarke--Upton Court                                   487

      MISCELLANEOUS:--

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                     493

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               494

      Notices to Correspondents                                  494

      Advertisements                                             494




Notes.


WADY MOKATTEB IDENTIFIED WITH KIBROTH HATTAVAH.

The difficulty of deciding the antiquity of the famous inscriptions in
the deserts of Arabia, would be considerably diminished if we could
ascertain the earliest mention of the valley now known as Wady Mokatteb.
What I am about to submit to the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," is
not a presumptuous or rash suggestion, but an idea diffidently
entertained,