Your correspondent's note is a curious instance of the inconvenience of half quotation. He says the Lamas are an order of priests among the Western Tartars. I was surprised at this, since their chief strength, as everybody knows, is in Thibet. On referring to Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, I found that the words are taken from thence; but they are not wrong there, since, by the context they have reference to China. C. B. _Language given to Men, &c._ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The saying that language was given to men to conceal their thoughts is generally fathered upon Talleyrand at present. I did not know it was in Goldsmith; but the real author of it was Fontenelle. C. B. _Daresbury, the White Chapel of England_ (Vol. iii., p. 60.).--This _jeu-d'esprit_ was an after-dinner joke of a learned civilian, not less celebrated for his wit than his book-lore. Some stupid blockhead inserted it in the newspapers, and it is now unfortunately chronicled in your valuable work. It is not at all to be wondered at that "the people in the neighbourhood know nothing on the subject." ECHO. _Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., pp. 30. 70.).--Were not the Lincolnshire estates of Count Bentinck, a Dutch nobleman who came over with William III., and the ancestor of the late Lord George Bentinck, M.P. for Lynn Regis, denominated _Little Holland_, which he increased by reclaiming large portions in the Dutch manner from the Wash? E. S. TAYLOR. _Passage in the Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 259, &c.).--I do not profess to offer an opinion as to the right reading; but with reference to the suggestion of A. E. B. (p. 338.) that it means-- "Most busy when least I do it," or-- "Most busy when least employed," allow me to refer you to the splendid passage in the _De Officiis_, lib. iii. cap. i., where Cicero expresses the same idea:-- "Pub. Scipionem,... eum, qui primus Africanus appellatus sit, dicere solitum scripsit Cato,... _Nunquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum otiosus_; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox, et magno viro, ac sapiente digna; quae declarat, illum et in otio de negotiis cogitare, et in solitudine secum loqui solitum: ut neque cessaret unquam, et interdum colloquio alterius non egeret." ACHE. _Damasked Linen_ (Vol. iii., p. 13.).--I believe it has always been customary to damask the linen used by our royal family with appropriate devices. I have seen a cloth of Queen Anne's, with the "A. R." in double cypher, surrounded by buds and flowers; and have myself a cloth with a view of London, and inscribed "Der Konig Georg II.," which was purchased at Brentford, no doubt having come from Kew adjoining. H. W. D.