It appears to me that the _Horiti_ of Alfred are undoubtedly the _Croati_, or _Chrowati_, of Pomerania, who still pronounce their name _Horuati_, the _H_ supplying, as in numerous other instances, the place of the aspirate _Ch_. Nor does it seem unreasonable to presume that the _Harudes_ of Caesar (_De Bell. Gall._ b. i. 31. 37. 51.) were also _Croats_; for they must have been a numerous and widely spread race, and are all called _Ch_arudes, [Greek: Aroudes]. The following passage from the _Annales Fuldensis_, A. 852., will strengthen this supposition:--"Inde transiens per Angros, _Harudos_, Suabos, et Hosingos ... Thuringiam ingreditur." Mr. Kemble[2], with his wonted acumen, has not failed to perceive that our _Coritavi_ derived their name in the same manner; but his derivation of the word from Hor, _lutum_, Horilit, _lutosus_, is singularly at issue with Herr Leo's, who derives it from the Bohemian Hora, a mountain, Horet a mountaineer, and he places the _Horiti_ in the Ober Lanbitz and part of the Silesian mountains. Schaffarik again, says that _Maegtha Land_ is, according to its proper signification, unknown; but that as Adam of Bremen places Amazons on the Baltic coast, probably from mistaking of the _Mazovians_? it is possible that _Maegthaland_ has thus arisen. In 1822 Dahlmann (_Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte_, t. i. 422.) gave a German version of King Alfred's narration, where the passage is also correctly translated; but as regards the illustration of the names of the people of Sclavonic race, much yet remains to be done. It is to be hoped that some competent northern scholar among us may still remove, what I must consider to be a national reproach--the want of a correct and well illustrated edition of the _Hormesta_, or at any rate of this singularly interesting and valuable portion of it. S.W. SINGER. Feb. 21. 1850. [Footnote 1: "Aber _Welitabi_, die in Germania sizzent, tie wir _Wilze_ heizen, die ni scament sih niche ze chedenne, daz sih iro parentes mit merem rehte ezen sulin danne die wurme." Albinus, in his _Meissnische Chronicle_, says they had their name from their _wolfish_ nature.] [Footnote 2: _The Saxons in England_, vol. i. p. 9. note.] * * * * * THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND. As a Supplement to your "NOTES ON COFFEE," I send you the following extracts. Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian Library), says of this worthy knight,