"History of Embanking and Draining of divers Fens and Marshes, both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, and of the Improvement thereby: adorned with sundry Maps, &c. London, 1662, fol. A New Edition, with three Indices to the principal Matters, Names, and Places, by Charles Nelson Cole, Esq.: London, 1772, fol." Mr. Samuel Wells published, in 1830, in 2 vols. 8vo., a complete history of the Bedford Level, accompanied by a map; and I may add that the late Mr. Grainger, C.E., read a series of papers on the draining of the Haarlem Lake to the Society of Arts in Edinburgh, which, I believe, were never published, but which may, perhaps, be accessible to E. G. R. HENRY STEPHENS. _Nattochiis and Calchanti_ (Vol. ix., pp. 36. 84.).--The former of these words being sometimes spelt _natthocouks_ in the same deed, shows the ignorance or carelessness of the scribe, the reading being clearly corrupt; I would suggest _cottagiis_, cottages, and by "g^anis" I should understand not _granis_, as F.S.A. supposes, but _gardinis_, gardens. The line will then run thus: "Cum omnibus gardinis et cottagiis adjacentibus." It will be seen that this differs from the solution proposed by MR. THRUPP (p. 84.). With respect to the latter word, _calchanti_, I regret that I cannot offer a satisfactory solution. Possibly the word intended may have been _calcanthi_, copperas, vitriol, or the water of copper or brass; but I find in the _Index Alter_ of Ainsworth, the word-- "CALECANTUM. A kind of earth like salt, of a binding nature. _Puto pro Chalcanthum, Vitriol, L._" Will this tally with the circumstances of the case? I presume that the words _liquor_, _mineral_, &c., following _calchanti_ in the grant, are contractions for the genitive plural of those words; the subject of the grant being the tithes of all those substances. H. P. Lincoln's Inn. {184} _"One while I think," &c._ (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--These lines will be found in _The Synagogue_, p. 41., by Christopher Hervie. M. ZACHARY. _"Spires 'whose silent finger points to heaven'"_ (Vol. ix., pp. 9. 85.).--F. R. M., M.A., seems not to have observed that Wordsworth marks this line as a quotation; and in the note upon it (_Excursion_, 373.) gives the poetical passage in _The Friend_, whence he took it, thus acknowledging Coleridge to be the author. The passage is not to be found in the modern edition of _The Friend_, by the reference in Wordsworth's note to "_The Friend_, No. 14. p. 223." I presume that _The Friend_ was originally published in numbers, and that it is to that publication Wordsworth refers. This is not simply the case, as F. R. M., M.A., suggests, of two authors using the same idea, but of one also honestly acknowledging his debt to the other. The idea is of much older date than the prose of Coleridge, or the verse of Wordsworth. Milton, in his Epitaph on Shakspeare, has: "Under a star y-pointing pyramid." Prior has the following line: