Chapter C: W. Goodwin

_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476.).--Is not our excellent correspondent MR. SINGER mistaken in supposing that the ears are the ears of the scabbard or pitcher? If you draw one thing out of another by the ears, it must be by the ears of the first, not of the second; yet he also says that it is used for hilts.

C. B.

_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. iii., p. 484.).--May I add, in my defence as to the Thracians' smoking, that all I said was, that there was nothing in Solinus, chap. 15. I had looked at the Bipont edition, in which, as I now see, the passage is in chapter 10.

C. B.

_Principle of Association_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--I cannot but doubt whether "La partie réelle de la métaphysique" means "all that has yet been done in the philosophy of the human mind." I apprehend it means the material, or physical part; that which is connected with the structure of the body. This would apply to Hartley, though not to Mr. Gay: but I speak in the dark, for I have not that edition of La Place which your correspondent refers to.

C. B.

_Corpse makes a Right of Way_ (Vol. iii., p. 477.).--That a funeral creates a right of way, is an error founded on the fact that, being a remarkable, and sometimes a crowded event, it is not an unfrequent evidence of the previous existence of a right of way.

C. B.

_Chloe_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--In reply to a Query in one of your late numbers respecting the meaning of the expression "as drunk as Chloe," it has been suggested to me that it refers to a lady who is mentioned often in Prior's _Poems_, and who was celebrated for the propensity alluded to.

ERYX.

_Family of Sir J. Banks_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--It appears, on a reference to Burke's _Commoners_, that the ancestors of Sir J. Banks were possessed of property in and about Keswick; and the present representative of the family possesses black-lead mines in Borrowdale, Cumberland. It is, therefore, very probable that the Mr. John Banks in question may have been of the same family, though not a lineal descendant of Sir J. Banks.

L. H.

_Verse Lyon_ (Vol. iii., p. 466.).--In the literal reprint of Puttenham, 1811, I find the words extracted by J. F. M., with one unimportant exception, "And they _called_ it _Verse Lyon_." J. F. M. may find some account of Leonine verses, which "are properly the Roman hexameters and pentameters rhymed," in Price's edition of Warton's _History of English Poetry_, vol. i. p. cxviii.

H. G. T.

_Heronsewes_ (Vol. iii., p. 450.).--A probable derivation is given in Tyrwhitt's note on the passage in the _Squire's Tale_ from the French _heronçeaux_, which would probably, in English usage, become either _heronsewes_, or _heronshaws_. It is of course a diminutive, like "lioncel," "pennoncel," &c.

H. G. T.

_Theory of the Earth's Form_ (Vol. iii., p. 331.).--Who first taught that the form of the earth was that of a sphere? In Isaiah xl. 22. appears the following passage:

He that sitteth upon the CIRCLE of the _earth_ and the inhabitants
thereof," &c.

Does not this extract prove that the Jews, as a people, were acquainted with the spherical form of the earth in Isaiah's time; the prophets usually addressing the people in popular language.