Royal Library 446 Damasked Linen 446 Vermin, Payments for Destruction of 447 Was Raleigh in Virginia? 448 Replies to Minor Queries:--Bunting's Irish Melodies--Colonies in England--"History of Anglesey," &c.--The Lowey of Tunbridge--Praed's Works--John à Cumber--Punishment of Prince Edward of Carnarvon--Joceline's Legacy--Bristol Tables--Grimsdyke or Grimesditch--Derivation of "Æra"--Scent of the Bloodhound--Monk and Cromwell Families--"Truth is that which a man troweth"--"Worse than a Crime"--Verses in Classical Prose--Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru--Nolo Episcopari--Hougoumont--Call a Spade, a Spade--"Tace is Latin for a Candle"--Collars of SS.--Locusts of the New Testament--Theodolite--"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"--Voltaire--Sinaïtic Inscriptions--Le Greene at Wrexham--Cross-legged Effigies--The Word Ἀδελφὸς --Finger Pillories--Blackloana Heresis--Quaker Expurgated Bible--"Acu tinali merida" 452 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 459 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 460 Notices to Correspondents 460 Advertisements 460 Notes. THE ABORIGINES OF ST. DOMINGO. Perhaps you will kindly permit me to have recourse to "NOTES AND QUERIES" for the purpose of pointing out one or two errors in a letter from Sir R. Schomburgk, which was read at the meeting of the British Association on the 3rd July last, section of Geography and Ethnology. This communication, entitled "Ethnological Researches in Santo Domingo," and addressed to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, contains the following statement: I quote from the _Athenæum_ of the 5th July:-- "The extirpation of the pure Indian race prevented me from making comparative inquiries between the still existing tribes of Guiana, and those that once inhabited St. Domingo. My researches were therefore restricted to what history and the few and poor monuments have transmitted to us of their customs and manners. Their language lives only in the names of places, rivers, trees, and fruits; but all combine in declaring that the people who bestowed these names were identical with the Carib and Arawaak tribes of Guiana."