There can be no doubt that John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl of Stair, justly merited the appellation of the "Curse of Scotland," from the part which he took in the horrible massacre of Glencoe, and from the utter detestation in which he was held in consequence, and which compelled him to resign the secretaryship in 1695. After a deliberate inquiry by the commissioners had declared _him_ to be guilty of the massacre, we cannot wonder that the man should be held up to scorn by the most popular means which presented themselves; and the nine diamonds in his shield would very naturally, being the insignia of his family, be the best and most easily understood mode of perpetuating that detestation in the minds of the people. L. J. _Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.; Vol. ii., pp. 27. 60. 94.).--Your correspondents will find some information on this word in Ledwich's _Antiquities of Ireland_, 2nd edit. p. 279.; and in Wakeman's _Handbook of Irish Antiquities_, p. 141. Ledwich seems to derive the word from the Teutonic _Bawen_, to construct and secure with branches of trees. R. H. _Catacombs and Bone-houses_ (Vol. i., p. 171.).--MR. GATTY will find a vivid description of the bone-house at Hythe, in Mr. Borrow's _Lavengro_, vol. i. I have no reference to the exact page. C. P. PH***. _Bacon and Fagan_ (Vol. iii., p. 106.).--The letters B and F are doubtless convertible, as they are both labial letters, and can be changed as _b_ and _p_ are so frequently. 1. The word "batten" is used by Milton in the same sense as the word "fatten." 2. The Latin word "flo" is in English "to blow." 3. The word "flush" means much the same as "blush." 4. The Greek word βρέμω is in the Latin changed to "fremo." 5. The Greek word βορὰ = in English "forage." 6. _Herod._ vii. 73. Βίλιππος for Φίλιππος; Βρύγες for Φρύγες. 7. Φάλαινα in Greek = "balæna" in Latin = "balène" in French. 8. Φέρω in Greek = "to bear" in English. 9. "Frater" in Latin = "brother" in English. Many other instances could probably be found. I think that we may fairly imply that the labials _p_, _b_, _f_, _v_, may be interchanged, in the same way as the dental letters _d_ and _t_ are constantly; and I see no reason left to doubt that the word Bacon is the same as the word Fagan. Φιλόλογος. _To learn by Heart_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--When A SUBSCRIBER TO YOUR JOURNAL asks for some account of the origin of the phrase "to learn by Heart," may he not find it in St. Luke i. 66, ii. 19. 51.?