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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Vanes_ (Vol. v., p. 490.).--Taking up by accident the other day your fifth
volume, I saw what I believe is a still unanswered Query respecting the
earliest notice of vanes as indicators of the wind; and turning to my notes
I found the following extract from Beckman's _Inventions, &c._:
"In Ughelli Italia Sacra, Romæ 1652, fol. iv., p 735., we find the
following inscription on a weathercock then existing at Brixen;
'_Dominus Rampertus Episc. gallum hunc fieri præcepit an. 820._'"