_Arkwright_ (Vol. v., p. 320.).--This surname would originally denote the fabricator of such _arks_, or large chests made of strong oaken planks, as are still to be found under that name in most old farmhouses, at least in this neighbourhood, where they are chiefly used for storing meal or flour. The fact of our translators of the Bible having called the sacred chest in the Holy of Holies by this term seems to point to a more general use of the word in their days than at present obtains. Mr. Hunter (_Hallamsh. Gloss._, p. 5.) says that the strong boxes in which the Jews kept their valuables were anciently called their arks (_archas_), and that the word is so found in the _Foedera_, 45 Hen. III. It occurs twice in the Church Accounts of this parish. "1527. Minatus [=e]. [=p]d. Will[=m]us browne _archas_ et cistas diffr[=i]gere. 1744. pd. Wm. Yates for setting up _ark_." Cf. also Lower's _Eng. Surnames_, 2nd ed., p. 92.; and the Latin _arca_, a chest, coffer, or box. J. EASTWOOD Ecclesfield, Sheffield. It is rather curious that the word _wright_ for _carpenter_ is still commonly used in Scotland, but that _Sievewright_ is the only _surname_ in which it appears in that country; while in England it is found in several, although the word itself is there obsolete, unless it is still to be found in the northern counties. C. E. D. _Pilgrimages to the Holy Land_ (Vol. v., pp. 289. 290.).--Seeing a notice in "N. & Q." of Breydenbach's _Opus Transmarinum_, and a suggestion of Dr. Kitto that this work was written by Felix Faber, I am induced to call attention to another work written by the latter, which is still extant in his _own MS._, in the library at Ulm, bearing the following title: _Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Ægypti Peregrinationem_, and which was printed for the first time for the Literarische Verein at Stuttgart, a society established there about ten years since, with objects somewhat similar to our Camden Society. This was one of its earliest publications, and as the number of copies printed was very small, the volumes are now rarely to be met with. The author informs his brethren of the monastery of Ulm, for whose especial benefit he professes to have written his book, that he composed it soon after his return from his second journey, the interval between the first and _second_ journey having been occupied in reading and making notes from all the existing books on the same subject which he could meet with (it is to be regretted that he has not given us a list of these), "de quibus omnibus," he adds, "tuli quidquid deserviebat proposito meo, ex qua collectura grande volumen comportavi." With this collection of notes he appears to have set forth on his second expedition, "_quia post hæc omnia in multis dubius remansi et incertus, quia multa legeram et pauca videram_." Traversing Jerusalem, Arabia, and Ægypt, "_conferens ea, quæ prius legeram et collegeram ad ipsa loca, et