"Hinc item _croisado_ de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod vocant) sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui a tergo gestabant formam Crucis; et _Richardus_ olim Rex Angliae dicebatur _crouch-backed_, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod a tergo gestare gestiebat formam Crucis." G. F. G. Edinburgh. _Lines by Pope._--On the back of a letter in my possession, written by the poet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of his friend Mason:-- "_By Mr. Pope._ "Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine, To Painter Kent gave all this coin. 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, That ever Churchman gave to Lay." "Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. Wood to Kent: he had objected against the word _pio_ in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph." If these lines are not already in print, perhaps you will insert them amongst your "NOTES" as a contribution from ROBERT HOTCHKIN. Thimbleby Rectory, March 13. 1851. _Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in connexion with Scotland._--John Lesley, bishop of Ross, reports, that in the night before the battle between Athelstan, king of England, and Hungus, king of the Picts, a bright cross, like that whereon St. Andrew suffered, appeared to Hungus, who, having obtained the victory, ever after bore that figure. This happened in 819. Vide _Gent. Mag._ for Nov. 1732. E. S. T. _Snail-eating_ (Vol. iii., p. 207.).--Your correspondent C. W. B. does not seem to be aware that "a ragout of boror (snails)" is a regular dish with English _gypsies_. Vide Borrow's _Zincali_, part i. c. v. He has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks on the subject: "Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the land of Gorgios (England), or the Busne (Spain), that the very gypsies, who consider a ragout of snails a delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it bears a resemblance to a snake; and that those who will feast on a roasted hedgehog could be induced by no money to taste a squirrel!" Having tasted of roasted hotchiwitchu (hedgehog) myself among the "gentle Rommanys," I can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and though a ragout of snails was never offered for my acceptance, I do not think that those who consider (as most "Gorgios" do) stewed eels a delicacy ought to be too sever on "Limacotrophists!" HERMES. _Snail-eating._--Perhaps you will permit me to remark, in reference to the communication of C. W. B., that snails are taken medicinally occasionally, and are supposed to be extremely strengthening. I have known them eagerly sought after for the meal of a consumptive patient. As a matter of taste, too, they are by {222} some considered quite epicurean. A gentleman whom I used to know, was in the constant habit as he passed through the fields, of picking up the white slugs that lay in his way, and swallowing them with more relish than he would have done had they been oysters.