"I stood upon Eyemouth Fort, And guess ye what I saw? Fairmiside and Furmintong, Neuhouses and Cocklaw, The fairy fouk o' Fosterland, The witches o' Edincran, The bly-rigs o' Reston; But Dunse dings a'." Near the seaside village of Eyemouth, in Berwickshire, is a promontory marked with a succession of grassy mounds, the remains of a fort built there in the regency of Mary of Lorraine. A number of places are represented as visible from the fort: but here fact is not strictly adhered to. Fosterland once existed in the parish of Bunkle as a small village; but even its vestiges are not now visible on the brown moor where it once stood. Edincran, properly Auchinchran, is an estate in the vicinity of Fosterland, as is Reston also. There is a variation as follows: "The fairy fouk o' Fosterland, The witches o' Edincran, And the rye-kail o' Reston Gar'd a' the dogs die." The rye-kail alluded to must have been a broth chiefly made from rye, which grain, it is well known, is sometimes so much tainted as to be poisonous. C. BENSON. Birmingham. [Greek: Arnion] (Vol. vi., p. 509.).--Probably your correspondent is aware of the explanation given by Dr. Wordsworth in his book on the Apocalypse, but does not think it satisfactory. Still, as he does not allude to it, I venture to transcribe it: "The Apocalypse abounds in contrasts. For example, the LAMB, who is always called [Greek: Amnos], never [Greek: Arnion], in St. John's _Gospel_, is called [Greek: Arnion], never [Greek: Amnos], in St. John's _Apocalypse_, in which [Greek: Arnion] occurs twenty-nine times. And why does [Greek: ho Amnos] here become [Greek: to Arnion]? To _contrast_ Him more strongly with [Greek: to Thêrion], that is, to mark the _opposition_ between the LAMB and the Beast." To this a note is appended: "This contrast is even more striking in the original, where it is aided by an exact correspondence of syllables and accents. On one side are-- '[Greek: Hê pornê kai to Thêrion]:' On the other-- '[Greek: Hê Numphê kai to Arnion].' See Rev. xxi. 2. 9., xxii. 17."--_Is the Church of Rome Babylon?_ p. 58.: London, 1851. A. A. D. [Greek: Arnion] and [Greek: amnos] both denote a lamb. In John i. 29. 36., the latter is applied to Jesus by John the {25} Baptist. In Acts viii. 32., and 1 Pet. i. 19., the term is manifestly derived from Isa. liii. 7., the Septuagint translation. But, in the Revelation, the word selected by the apostle is simply to be viewed as characteristic of his style. Taken in connexion with John i. 29. 36., the difference presents one of those points which so strikingly attest the authenticity of the Scripture. If the writer had drawn upon his imagination, in all likelihood he would have used the word [Greek: arnion] in the Gospel; but he employed another, because the Baptist actually made use of a different one, _i. e._ one different from that which he was in the habit of employing.