: Notes and Queries Number 58 December 7 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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NOTES:-- Page Further Notes on the Hippopotamus 457 Parallel Passages: Coleridge, Hooker, Butler, by J. E. B. Mayor 458 Shakspeare and the old English Actors in Germany, by Albert Cohn 459 Ten Children at a Birth 459 George Herbert and Bemerton Church, by H. T. Ellacombe 460 Minor Notes:--Lord Mayor's Show in 1701--Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS.--Translation from Owen, &c.--Epigram on the late Bull--Bailie Nicol Jarvie--Hogs not Pigs--The Baptized Turk 460

QUERIES:-- Gray--Dryden--Playing Cards 462 Minor Queries:--Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry--The Jews' Spring Gardens--Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility--"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"--Whipping by Women--Laerig--MS. History of Winchester School--Benedicite--The Church History Society--Pope Ganganelli--Sir George Downing--Solemnization of Matrimony--Passage in Bishop Butler--The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works--Titus Oates--Translations of Erasmus' Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c. 463

REPLIES:-- Holme MSS.--The Cradocks 465 Antiquity of Smoking 465 Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi 466 Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke 466 Replies to Minor Queries:--Cromwell Poisoned--"Never did Cardinal bring Good to England"--Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty--Nonjurors' Oratories in London--"Filthy Gingran"--Michael Scott--The Widow of the Wood--Modum Promissionis--End of Easter--First Earl of Roscommon--Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"--Cabalistic Author--Becket--A?rostation--Kilt--Bacon Family, &c. 467

Miscellaneous:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 470 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 470 Notices to Correspondents 470

NOTES.

FURTHER NOTES ON THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Calpurnius is generally referred to the time of Carus and Numerian, about 283 A.D.; but his date is not determined by any satisfactory proof.

There is no trace of a live hippopotamus having been brought to Europe between the time specified in the last of these testimonies and the middle of the sixteenth century. When Belon visited Constantinople, he saw there a living hippopotamus, which had been brought from the Nile:

Belon returned to Paris from the Levant in the year 1550. In his work on fishes, p. 17., he speaks of another Frenchman, lately returned from Constantinople, who had seen the same animal. P. Gillius likewise, who visited Constantinople in 1550, saw there the same hippopotamus, as he states in his description of the elephant, Hamburg, 114.

In the mosaic of Palestrina , the hippopotamus appears three times in the lower part of the composition, at the left-hand corner. Two entire figures are represented, and one head of an animal sinking into the river. Men in a boat are throwing darts at them, some of which are sticking in their backs. Diodorus describes the hippopotamus as being harpooned, and caught in a manner similar to the whale. Barthelemy properly rejects the supposition that the mosaic of Palestrina is the one alluded to by Pliny as having been constructed by Sylla. He places it in the time of Hadrian, and supposes it to represent a district of Upper Egypt, with which the introduction of the hippopotamus well accords. The true form of the hippopotamus was unknown in Italy in the time of Sylla.

PARALLEL PASSAGES: COLERIDGE, HOOKER, BUTLER.

I do not remember to have seen the following parallels pointed out.

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