Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850
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[Footnote 1: Pantheon Ægypt. tom. 1. p. 63.]
[Footnote 2: Diodor. Sic. Biblioth. p. 134.]
[Footnote 3: Rimes Guernesiaises, p. 4.]
[Footnote 4: Or the dog-days. Each sign has three Decans, or captains of
ten.]
[Footnote 5: Porphyr. apud Euseb. Præp. iii. 4.]
[Footnote 6: Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 37. cap. 10.]
[Footnote 7: Chiflet, p. 133. A genuine _cockroach_, and a formidable
one. I think the English word of Spanish origin.]
[Footnote 8: Corrections in the original.]
[Footnote 9: We are indebted to the last number of _Chambers' Edinburgh
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appeared in our columns. It there forms the conclusion of an article on
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communications which have been made to the "NOTES AND QUERIES," and
kindly adduced to show the utility of our paper.]
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