"'This nauseous juice,' the monarch cries, 'Thou darling child of fame, Tho' it each earthly clime denies, Shall never bathe thy name. "'Ye azure tribes that rule the sea, And rise at my command, Bid _Vernon_ mix a draught for me To toast his native land.' "Swift o'er the waves the Nereids flew, Where _Vernon's_ flag appear'd; Around the shores they sung 'True Blue,' And Britain's hero cheer'd. "A mighty bowl on deck he drew, And filled it to the brink; Such drank the Burford's[2] gallant crew, And such the gods shall drink. "The sacred robe which Vernon wore Was drenched within the same; And hence his virtues guard our shore, And _Grog_ derives its name." W.H.S. [The gallant correspondent to whom we are indebted for the foregoing satisfactory, because early and documentary, evidence of the etymology of the now familiar term GROG, informs us that there is a still earlier ballad on the subject. We trust that he will be enabled to recover that also, and put it on record in our columns.] _Barnacles_.--In a _Chorographical Description of West, or Il-Jar Connaught_, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, Esq., 1684, published by the Irish Archaeological Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus mentioned:-- "There is the bird engendered by the sea out of timber long lying in the sea. Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them. We call them _girrinn_." Martin, in his _Western Isles of Scotland_, says:-- "There are also the _cleek geese_. The shells in which this fowl is said to be produced, are found in several isles sticking to trees by the bill; of this kind I have seen many,--the fowl was covered by a shell, and the head stuck to the tree by the bill,--but never saw any of them with life in them upon the tree; but the natives told me that they had observed them to move with the heat of the sun."--See also Gratianus, Lucius, Ware's _Antiquities_, &c. Eating sea-birds on fast days is a very ancient custom. Socrates mentions it in the 5th century: "Some along with fish eat also birds, saying, that according to Moses, birds like fish were created out of the waters." Mention is made in Martin's _Western Isles_, of a similar reason for eating _seals_ in Lent. _Cormorants_, "as feeding only on fish," were allowable food on fast days, as also were _otters_. CEREDWYN. _Vondel's Lucifer_.--I cannot inform your correspondent F. (No. 9 p. 142.), whether Vondel's _Lucifer_ has ever been translated into English, but he will find reasons for its not being worth translating, in the _Foreign Quarterly Review_ for April, 1829, where the following passage occurs:--