Can any of your
correspondents tell me who she was?
PETER CUNNINGHAM
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QUERIES IN MEDIAEVAL GEOGRAPHY.
What are the modern names of "Watewich," "Portum Pusillum," "Mare de
Saham," "Perpessa," and "Northmuth?" They are not to be found in
Ferrario's _Lexicon_ (a geographical dictionary so defective that it has
not even the Latin name for Aix-la-Chapelle), nor in Baudrand's _Lexicon
Geographicum_ (a good dictionary for the mediaeval Latin names in France,
but not so perfect as the _Index Geographicum_ attached to the volumes
of Bouquet), nor in Martiniere's _Grande Dictionnarie Geographique_, nor
in the Index to Wright's _Courthand_, a miserable and imperfect
compilation.
[These Queries are addressed to our correspondents in a very
flattering review of "NOTES AND QUERIES" which appeared in the
_Morning Herald_ of the 16th of November, and we shall be very
glad to receive such answers to all or any of them as it may be
in the power of any of our friends to supply.]
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MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY.
Sir,--I have had intrusted to me a MS. metrical book on Alchymy,
"written by me Myles Bloomefylde, late of Bury Saynes Edmunde in ye
Countye of Suffolke, Physytione;" but I can find no account of the
author.
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