Produced by Jon Ingram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. With thanks to Internet Library of Early Journals. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 23.] SATURDAY, APRIL 6. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{361} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Periplus of Hanno, by R.T. Hampson 361 Pope Vindicated 362 The Supper of the Lorde 362 Folk Lore:--Palm Sunday Wind--Curious Symbolical Custom--The Wild Huntsman 363 On Authors and Books, No. VI, by Bolton Corney 363 QUERIES:-- Nicholas Breton's Crossing of Proverbs, by J.P. Collier 364 Sword called Curtana, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 364 Is the Dombec the Domesday of Alfred? by George Munford 365 Minor Queries:--Wickliffite Versions of the Scriptures--Gloves--Law Courts at St. Alban's--Milton Pedigree--Sapcote Motto--Scala Coeli, &c. 366 REPLIES:-- The Arabic Numerals and Cipher 367 Replies to Minor Queries, by Sir W.C. Trevelyan 368 Derivation of "News" 369 Replies to Minor Queries:--Swot--Pokership--Vox Populi--Living Dog better than dead Lion--Curious Monumental Brasses--Chapels--Forthlot--Loscop-- Smelling of the Lamp--Anglo-Saxon MS. of Orosius--Golden Frog--Sword of Charles I.--John Bull--Vertue MSS.--Lines attributed to Tom Brown, &c. 369 MISCELLANIES:-- Epigram by La Monnoye--Spur Money--Minimum de Malls--Epigram on Louis XIV.--Macaulay's Young Levite--St. Martin's Lane--Charles Deering, M.D. 373 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 375 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 375 Notices to Correspondents 375 Advertisements 376 * * * * * PERIPLUS OF HANNO THE CARTHAGINIAN. I am not sufficiently Quixotic to attempt a defence of the Carthaginians on the western coast of Africa, or any where else, but I submit that the accusation brought against them by Mr. S. Bannister, formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales, is not sustained by the only record we possess of Hanno's colonising expedition. That gentleman, in his learned _Records of British Enterprise beyond Sea_, just published, says, in a note, p. xlvii.:-- "The first nomade tribe they reached was friendly, and furnished Hanno with _interpreters_. At length they discovered a nation _whose language was unknown to the interpreters_. These strangers they attempted to seize; and, upon their resistance, they took three of the women, whom they put to death, and carried their skins to Carthage" (_Geogr. Graeci Minores_, Paris, 1826, p. 115.).