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G.I.C. will find books on _Astrology_ for sale at Maynard's, No. 8. Earl's
Court, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, more readily, perhaps, than any
where else in London.
ROBERT SNOW.
6. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, Jan. 13. 1851.
_Dodo Queries_ (Vol. i., pp. 261, 262.).--MR. STRICKLAND is informed, that
in the list of Pingr�'s works, as given in Qu�rard's _France Litt�raire,_
there is one with the following title:--
"M�moire sur les D�couvertes faites dans la Mer du Sud, avant les
derniers Voyages des Fran�ais autour du Monde, lu � l'Acad�mie des
Sciences, 1766, 1767, 1778, in. 4."
I have not read Pingr�'s works, but if they contain any mention of
_Solitaires_, it will probably be found in the _M�moire_ above referred to.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850.
_Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., p. 30).--In an ancient
charter, in my possession, bearing date 19 Edw. I.: "Gilebertus dictus ate
Vorde, de Farlegh," and "James, son of the late Philip de Essche,"
quitclaim to James, son of Paulinus de Wynchelse:
"dimidiam acram terre Flandrensis ... in villa de Ickelesham,"
to have and to hold
una cum redditu et servitio mihi (_sic_) pertinentibus de alia dimidia
acra terre Flandrensis."
The _polders_ of Holland are familiar to all travellers, as lands lying
below the level of the sea, once a mere morass, redeemed from that state,
and brought into cultivation by embankments, &c., &c.
In another charter, somewhat earlier in date and relating to the same
district, viz. the neighbourhood of Winchelsea, Hamo de Crevecour speaks of
lands in La more in Ideun, which the monks of Robertsbridge, with consent
of his father Hamo, "a mari incluserunt."
I have always supposed that the "terra Flandrensis" of my charter signified
land of the same description as the Dutch polders; the art of thus
redeeming land being probably introduced from the Low Countries. It is not
unlikely that, in that day, lands so brought into cultivation were
designated as "terre Flandrenses," and the term afterwards anglicised into
"Holland Land."
L.B.L.
_Swearing by Swans_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--Symbology of the swan.
"Tunc allati sunt in pompatica gloria duo cygni, vel olores, ante
regem, &c. &c.,--vindicaturus."[12]--_Matth�us Westmonasteriensis_.
Dr. Lingard states that "the vows of chivalry were not taken on the
gospels, but, ridiculous as it may appear, in the presence of a peacock, or
{71} pheasant, or other bird of beautiful plumage."--_History of England_,
Edward I.
"Nec dissimili ingenio Heraldi antiquiores, musicos et cantatores
cygnis[13] donarunt. Ejusque haud ignarus perspicax noster Franciscanus cum
hos a non cantoribus latos observasset, rationem se ait a rege heraldorum
petiisse, eumque duplicem assignasse: hanc quia viri essent pulcherrimi,
illam quia haberent longa colla. Sane candorem animi per cygni effigiem
antiquit�s pr�dicabant, nec insuls� igitur corporis. Sed glori� studium ex
eodem hoc symbolo indicari multi asserunt.
"Cum Edwardus primus," &c. &c.--Spelmanni _Aspilogia_, p. 132.
The Spaniards found that the swan had been employed emblematically in
Mexico, supporting the theory of Hornius that that part of America was
colonised by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, inasmuch as, according to
Bryant, "where the Canaanites or their descendants may have settled, there
will a story be found in reference to swans."
The mythological history of the Cygnus will be found in the latter author's
_Analysis_, and in Hill's _Urania, or a Complete View of the Heavens,
containing the Ancient and Modern Astronomy, in Form of a Dictionary_,
which will perhaps meet the wants of G.I.C. (Vol. iii. p. 24.).
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