It is almost needless to mention, that India received {492} its name from the river _Indus_; and that _Indus_ and [Greek: Indos] are the Roman and Greek forms of _Sindo_, the name it was known by among the natives. HENRY KERSLEY. Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone. [We have received many other replies to this Query, referring "NORTHMAN" to Robertson's _History of America_, and Humboldt's _Aspects, &c._, vol. ii. p. 319.] _Vox Populi Vox Dei_ (No. 20. p. 321.).--Your correspondent "QUÆSITOR" asks for the origin of the saying _Vox populi Vox Dei_. Warwick, in his _Spare Minutes_ (1637), says-- "That the voice of the common people is the voice of God, is the common voice of the people; yet it is as full of falsehood as commonnesse. The cry before Pilate's judgement-seat, 'Let him be crucified,' was _vox populi_, 'the cry of all the people.' How far was it the voice of God?" M. [Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, in his valuable _Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion_, p. 172., has some very interesting remarks upon this proverb, which, "in its original sense, appears to be an echo of some of the sentences in the classical writers, which attribute a divine or prophetic character to common fame or rumour." See pp. 172, 173., and the accompanying Notes.] _Dutch Language_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--"E.V." will find Holtrop's _Dictionary_ in 2 vols. one of the best. Werninck's _Pocket Dictionary_ is very good: also Tauchnitz's _Dutch and French_ (pocket): also Picard's _English and Dutch_. Jansen's is not bad. Swier's _Grammar_ is a good one; but I do not know whether there is any late edition. See Williams and Norgate, or Quaritch. AREDJID KOOEZ. [Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly answered this Query, by the following list:-- PYL (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the Dutch Language, 8vo. Rotterd. 1826, 8s. AHN (F.) Neue holländische Sprachlehre nebst Lesestucke, 12mo. Cref. 1841, 2s. AHN (F) holländische Umgangsprache, 12mo. 1846, 1s. 6d. PICARD (H.) A new Pocket Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages, remodelled and corrected from the best Authorities. Zalt-bommel, 1848, 10s. 6d. DICTIONNAIRE Hollandais et Français. 16mo. Leipzig, 4s. HOLLANDISCH u. deutsches Taschen-wörterbuch. 16mo. 4s.] "_Salting._"--Salt is said by all writers upon magic to be particularly disagreeable to evil spirits; and it is owing to this noxious substance being dissolved in holy water, that it has such power in scaring them away. Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in all sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption?