4. Lastly, Is any letter known to exist in the public journals of the years 1770, 1771, under the signature of ARUSPEX? F. MADDEN. British Museum. [Footnote 1: I have been unable to refer to these letters, as no copy exists in the British Museum library.] [Footnote 2: As M.P. for Bewdley. He was returned in 1768, and unseated in January, 1769.] [Footnote 3: In the _Public Advertiser_ for January 1, 1779 [1780], appeared a notice of the _Poems_, said to have been "published yesterday;" and although two pieces are extracted at length, not a syllable of doubt is expressed as to their genuineness.] [Footnote 4: The estate at Arley was left to the Hon. George Annesley (afterwards Earl of Mountnorris), son of Lord Valentia, by the will of Thomas Lord Lyttelton, and Mr. Roberts was one of the trustees appointed.] * * * * * Minor Queries. _Lord Chatham._--I would suggest as a Query, whether Lord Chatham's famous comparison of the Fox and Newcastle ministry to the confluence of the Rhone and Saone at Lyons (_Speech_, Nov. 13, 1755), was not adapted from a passage in Lord Roscommon's _Essay on translated Verse_. Possibly Lord Chatham may have merely quoted the lines of Roscommon, and reporters may have converted his quotation into prose. Lord Chatham (then of course Mr. Pitt) is represented to have said: "_I remember_ at Lyons to have been carried to the conflux of the Rhone and the Soane: the one a gentle, feeble, languid stream, and, though languid, of no depth; the other, a boisterous and _impetuous_ torrent." Lord Roscommon says: "Thus _have I seen_ a rapid headlong tide, With foaming waves the passive Saone divide, Whose lazy waters without motion lay, While he, with eager force, urg'd his _impetuous_ way." W. EWART. University Club. _Slow-worm Superstition._--Could any of your correspondents kindly inform me whether there is any foundation for the superstition, that if a slow-worm be divided into two or more parts, those parts will continue to live till sunset (life I suppose to mean that tremulous motion which the divided parts, for some time after the cruel operation, continue to have), and whether it exists in any other country or county besides Sussex, in which county I first heard of it? TOWER. _Tangiers_ (Vol. vii., p. 12.).--I have not seen any opinion as to these Queries. A. C. _Snail Gardens._--What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens? C. M. T. Oare. _Naples and the Campagna Felice._--Who was the author of letters bearing this title, which {34} originally appeared in Ackermann's _Repository_, and were published in a collected form in 1815? In a catalogue of Jno. Miller's (April, 1853), I see them attributed to Combe. Q. Philadelphia. "_The Land of Green Ginger_"--the name of a street in Hull. Can any of your correspondents inform me why so called? R. H. B.