_Scurvy Ale._--The Query (Vol. iv., p. 68.) "What was scurvy ale?" may
perhaps be answered by an extract from a little work, _The Polar Sea and
Regions_, published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. In the account of
Baffin's voyage, in which he discovered the bay called after him
Baffin's Bay, we are told that--
"Finding the health of his crew rather declining, he sailed across
to Greenland, where an abundance of _scurvy grass boiled in beer_
quickly restored them; and the Lord then sent them a speedy and
good passage homeward."
Johnson explains scurvy-grass as spoonwort.