(Vol. viii., p. 351. &c.)
The banks of the Rhine furnish abundant examples of this literary
pleasantry: chronograms are as thick as blackberries. I send you a dozen,
gathered during a recent tour. Each one was transcribed by myself.
1. Cologne Cathedral, 1722; on a beam in a chapel, on the south side of the
choir:
"pIa VIrgInIs MarIæ soDaLItas annos sæCV-
LarI renoVat."