Speaking of leviathan, he asks,
"Canst thou with _fiz-gigs_ pierce him to the quick?"
It may be an ignorant question, but I do not know what fiz-gigs are.
C.B.
_Specimens of Erica in Bloom_.--Can any of your correspondents oblige me
by the information where I can procure specimens in bloom of the
following plants, viz. Erica crescenta, Erica paperina, E. purpurea, E.
flammea, and at what season they come into blossom in England? If
specimens are not procurable without much expense and trouble, can you
supply me with the name of a work in which these plants are figured?
E.S.
Dover.
_Michael Scott, the Wizard_.--What works by Michael Scott, the reputed
wizard, (Sir Walter's _Deus ex Machina_ in _The Lay of the Last
Minstrel_), have been printed?
X.Y.A.
_Stone Chalices_.--Can any of the readers of "Notes and Queries" inform
me whether the use of _stone chalices_ was authorised by the ancient
constitutions of the Church; and, if so, at what period, and where the
said constitutions were enacted?
X.Y.A.
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REPLIES.
ULRICH VON HUTTEN AND THE "EPISTOLAE OBSCURORUM VIRONUM."
(Vol. ii., p. 55.)
I have never seen the article in the _Quarterly Review_ to which your
correspondent H.B.C. alludes: he will probably find it by reference to
the index, which is not just now within my reach. The neat London
edition, 1710, of the _Epistolae_ was given by Michael Mattaire.
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