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DICK THE TREBLE _will find the Gloucestershire Ballad_ George Ridler's Oven
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HOGMANAY. _Our Correspondent_ J. BD., _who inquires the etymology of this
word, is referred to Jamieson's_ Scottish Dictionary _and Brand's_ Popular
Antiquities (ed. Bohn. 1849), vol. i. p. 460., _for the very numerous and
contradictory derivations which the learned have given of it_.
W. W. (Stilton.) _The stone of which our Correspondent has forwarded an
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Gnostic and Basilidian heretics. On it is a double serpent, and the seven
vowels of the Greek alphabet_, [Greek: A E Ê I O U Ô], _which constantly
appear on their engraved stones, and to which they referred certain
mystical ideas. These were worn as amulets: sometimes used as love charms;
and our Correspondent will find some curious facts about them in an old
Greek papyrus just published by Mr. Godwin, in the_ Proceedings or
Transactions of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
C. E. F. _is informed that Mr. Eaton's proportion of ten grains of salt to
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tint_.
G. S. _"The Cataract of Lodore" will be found in Longman's one-volume
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