"'Tis not enough to make a man a subject, to convince him that there is regal power in the world; but there must be ways of _designing_ and knowing the person to whom the regal power of right belongs." COWGILL. "_Quadrijugis invectus equis," &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 391.).--These lines, in which "veriis" and "antesolat" are, of course, misprints for "variis" and "antevolat," apply with such peculiar exactness to Guido's celebrated Aurora, at the Rospigliosi Palace, that I cannot but think the painting has given rise to the lines. Besides, in the ancient mythology, the Horae are said to be _three_ in number, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, and one of their offices was harnessing the horses of the Sun. It is unlikely, therefore, that any classic author would mention them as being seven in number. C. I. R. _St. John's Bridge Fair_ (Vol. iii., p. 88.).--Perhaps in the county of Northampton, and in the city of Peterborough, where a fair, commencing October 2d, is still called "Bridge Fair." The parish church of Peterborough is dedicated to St. John Baptist; but a fair on the saint's day would be too near the other, and probably more ancient fair, which is held on old St. Peter's Day, to whom the cathedral church is dedicated. ARUN. _Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe_ (Vol. iii., pp. 137. 195.).--It is a singular fact, to which I do not remember a reference has hitherto been made, that Defoe, in his _Life and Adventures of Captain Singleton_, has foreshadowed the discovery by recent travellers of a great inland lake in the South of Africa. He describes his adventurous hero and companions, during their attempt to cross this vast continent from Mozambique to Angola, as having, on the ninth day of their journey, come in "view of a great lake of water." "The next day," he adds, "which was the tenth from our setting out, we came to the edge of this lake, and happily for us, we came to it at the south point of it, for to the north we could see no end of it; so we passed by it, and travelled three days by the side of it."--_Life, Adventures, and Piracies of Captain Singleton_, chap. vi. According to a rough calculation by one of the party, they were, a few days before reaching it, 700 miles from the coast of Mozambique, and 1500 from the Cape of Good Hope. Now Messrs. Murray and Oswell, the enterprising travellers to whom we owe the discovery of this vast South African lake, describe it as being in longitude 24 deg. East, latitude 19 deg. South; a position not very wide apart from that indicated in Defoe's amusing fiction. T. C. SMITH.