"And now it is time to mention the fable of the drowned city Vineta. While an old chronicler, Helmold, follows Adam of Bremen in the description of the city Wollin, he puts, through an error of transcription[4], in place of Julinum or Jumne, which name Adam of Bremen has, Vineta; such a place could not be found, and it was concluded, therefore, that the sea had engulfed it. The celebrated Buggenhagen[5] first discovered, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, a great rock formation in the sea, at the foot of the Streckelberg, on the island of Usedom[6], and then the city Vineta was soon transplanted thither; and it was absurdly considered that a rock reef (which has lately been used for the harbour of Swinemünde, and has disappeared) was the ruins of a city destroyed by the waves a thousand years ago: indeed, people are not wanting at the present day, who hold fast to this fable, caused by the error of a transcriber. In the mean time it has become a folk tale, and as such retains its value. A Wolliner booth-keeper recounted me the interesting story, which may be read in Barthold's _History of Pomerania_ (vol. i. p. 419.),--a rough sterling Pomeranian (_ächt-pommerschis_) fantastical picture of the overbearing of the trade-enriched inhabitants of Vineta, which God had so punished by sending the waves of the ocean over the city. The town of Wollin, to which alone this legend was applicable, is certainly not destroyed by the sea, nor wholly desert: but if they deserved punishment for their pride in their greatness, they had received it in that they had quite fallen from their former glory."--Pp. 22-25. [Footnote 2: Likewise, repetition must be excused, as it is here scarcely avoidable.] [Footnote 3: "Olla Vulcani quæ incolæ Græcam vocant ignem de quo etiam meminit Solinus," adds Adam of Bremen. Solinus speaks of oil, or rather naphtha, from Moesia; and it is not improbable that the Wolliners imported it for their beacons in pots.] [Footnote 4: The oldest MSS. are said not to have this error.] [Footnote 5: A native of Wollin, by the bye.] [Footnote 6: Close by Damerow.] As I wish thoroughly to dispose of the question, I shall divide my communication on Julin into two parts, of which the above is the first. I reserve my own remarks till all the evidence has been heard. KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE. Minor Notes.