[Some additional and curious allusions to this probably mythic virago are recorded in Mr. Halliwell's _Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories_, printed for the Percy Society.] * * * * * A NOTE ON SPELLING.--"SANATORY," "CONNECTION." I trust that "NOTES AND QUERIES" may, among many other benefits, improve spelling by example as well as precept. Let me make a note on two words that I find in No. 37.: _sanatory_, p. 99., and _connection_, p. 98. Why "_sanatory_ laws?" _Sanare_ is _to cure_, and a curing-place is, if you like, properly called _sanatorium_. But the Latin for _health_ is _sanitas_, and the laws which relate to health should be called _sanitary_. Analogy leads us to _connexion_, not _connection_; _plecto_, _plexus_, _complexion_; _flecto_, _flexus_, _inflexion_; _necto_, _nexus_, _connexion_, &c.; while the termination _ction_ belongs to words derived from Latin verbs whose passive participles end in _ctus_ as _lego_, _lectus_, _collection_; _injecio_, _injectus_, _injection_; _seco_, _sectus_, _section_, &c. CH. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Pasquinade on Leo XII._--The Query put to a Pope (Vol. ii., p. 104.), which it is difficult to believe could be put orally, reminds me of Pope Leo XII., who was reported, whether truly or not, to have been the reverse of scrupulous in the earlier part of his life, but was remarkably strict after he became Pope, and was much disliked at Rome, perhaps because, by his maintenance of strict discipline, he abridged the amusements and questionable indulgences of the people. On account of his death, {132} which took place just before the time of the carnival in 1829, the usual festivities were omitted, which gave occasion to the following pasquinade, which was much, though privately, circulated-- "Tre cose mat fecesti, O Padre santo: Accettar il papato, Viver tanto, Morir di Carnivale Per destar pianto." J. Mn. _Shakspeare a Brass-rubber._--I am desirous to notice, if no commentator has forestalled me, that Shakspeare, among his many accomplishments, was sufficiently beyond his age to be a brass-rubber: "What's on this tomb I cannot read; the character I'll take with _wax_." _Timon of Athens_, v. 4. From the "soft impression," however, alluded to in the next scene, his "wax" appears rather to have been the forerunner of _gutta percha_ than of _heel-ball_. T.S. LAWRENCE. _California._--In the _Voyage round the World_, by Captain George Shelvocke, begun Feb. 1719, he says of California (_Harris's Collection_, vol. i. p. 233.):--