In Campbell's "Ode to the Highland Society on 21st March," he describes the 42nd Regiment as having been at Vimiera, which it assuredly was not; and no Highland regiment was in the battle except the 71st. I suspect he confounded the "Black Watch" with the distinguished corps next to it on the army list,--an error into which the author of _Charles O'Malley_ also must have fallen, as he makes Highlanders form a part of the Light Division, which consisted of the 43rd, 52nd, and 95th. J. S. WARDEN. _Palindromical Lines._--In addition to the verses given by your correspondent H. H. BREEN (Vol. vi., p. 449.), I send you the following, as perhaps the most remarkable of its kind in existence. It is mentioned by Jeremy Taylor as the inscription somewhere on a font. Letter by letter it reads the same, whether taken backward or forwards: [Greek: NIPSON ANOMÊMA MÊ MONAN OPSIN.] "Wash my guilt, and not my face only." AGRICOLA DE MONTE. _"Derrick" and "Ship's Painter."_--The following Note may perhaps interest some of your readers:--The ancient British word _derrick_, or some such word, still exists in our marine. It is used in sea phrase to define a crane for temporary purposes, and is not unusually represented by a single spar, which is stepped near a hatchway, provided with a tackle or purchase, in order to the removal of goods from the hold of a vessel. The use of _Derry_, both as a termination in the names of places, and in the old ballad chorus of _Down derry down_, is familiar to every one. Some other of our sea terms might receive apt illustration in "N. & Q.;" and I should beg to suggest "unde derivatur" a boat's _painter_,--the name of the rope which confines a ship's boat to the vessel, when at sea. Turner gave a world-wide interest to the phrase when he called, in his eccentric manner, one of his finest marine pictures "Now for the painter." J. C. G. Tavistock Square. _Lord Reay's Country._--Formerly the parish of Durness comprehended the whole of the district known as "Lord Reay's country," or, as it is called in Gaelic, "Duthaic Mhic Aoi," _i. e._ the land of the Mackays, extending from the river of Borgie, near Strathnaver, to the Kyle of Assynt, and comprehending a space of about 800 square miles! Since 1734 it has been divided into three parishes, viz. Eddrachillis, Durness, and Tongue, with the parish of Farr: it was disjoined from the presbytery of Caithness, and by an act of the Assembly attached to the presbytery of Tongue. KIRKWALLENSIS. * * * * * Queries. UNANSWERED QUERIES. I think it may be permitted to Querists, who may fail in obtaining answers, to recur to their questions after the lapse of a reasonable time, in order to awaken attention. I asked a question at page 270., Vol. vi., in which I was, and still am, much interested. Perhaps MR. COLLIER will do me the favour to answer it, particularly as his annotated folio is remarkably rich in "_stage directions_."