Billingsgate is the great fish market of London, and the scurrilous tongues of the fish women have made the word synonymous with vulgar abuse. _Note_ 8, _page_ 28. Alsop though cautiously avoiding Maryland politics, omits no fling at the Puritans. Pride was a parliament colonel famous for _Pride’s Purge_. _Notes_ 9, 10, _pages_ 31, 33. William Bogherst, and H. W., Master of Arts, have eluded all our efforts to immortalize them. _Note_ 11, _page_ 35. Chesapeake is said to be K’tchisipik, Great Water, in Algonquin. _Note_ 12, _page_ 38. Less bombast and some details as to the botany of Maryland would have been preferable. _Note_ 13, _page_ 39. The American deer (_Cariacus Virginianus_) is here evidently meant. {112} _Note_ 14, _page_ 39. Whetston’s (Whetstone) park: “A dilapidated street in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at the back of Holborn. It contains scarcely anything but old, half-tumble down houses; not a living plant of any kind adorns its nakedness, so it is presumable that as a park it never had an existence, or one so remote that even tradition has lost sight of the fact.” _Note_ 15, _page_ 39. The animals here mentioned are the black wolf (_canis occidentalis_), the black bear, the panther (_felis concolor_). _Note_ 16, _page_ 40. These animals are well known, the elk (_alces Americanus_), cat o’ the mountain or catamount (_felis concolor_), raccoon (_procyon lotor_), fox (_vulpes fulvus_), beaver (_castor fiber_), otter (_lutra_), opossum (_didelphys Virginiana_), hare, squirrel, musk-rat (_fiber zibethicus_). The monack is apparently the Maryland marmot or woodchuck (_arctomys monax_). _Note_ 17, _page_ 40. The domestic animals came chiefly from Virginia. As early as May 27, 1634, they got 100 swine from Accomac, with 30 cows, and they expected goats and hens (_Relation of Maryland_, 1634). Horses and sheep had to be imported from England, Virginia being unable to give any. Yet in 1679 Dankers and Sluyters, the Labadists, say: “Sheep they have none.”—_Collections Long Island Hist. Soc._, I, p. 218. _Note_ 18, _page_ 41. Alluding to the herds of swine kept by the Gadarenes, into one of which the Saviour allowed the devil named Legion to enter. _Note_ 19, _page_ 42. The abundance of these birds is mentioned in the _Relations of Maryland_, 1634, p. 22, and 1635, p. 23. The Labadists with whose travels the Hon. {113} H. C. Murphy has enriched our literature, found the geese in 1679–80 so plentiful and noisy as to prevent their sleeping, and the ducks filling the sky like a cloud.—_Long Island Hist. Coll._, I, pp. 195, 204. _Note_ 20, _page_ 43. Alsop makes no allusion to the cultivation of maize, yet the Labadists less than twenty years after describe it at length as the principal grain crop of Maryland.—_Ib._, p. 216. _Note_ 21, _page_ 45. Considering the facts of history, this picture is sadly overdrawn, Maryland having had its full share of civil war. _Note_ 22, _page_ 46.