so reconciled."

Have any of your readers at any time seen and made a _note_ of such
a register?

The most probable place of deposit would be the Bishop's Registry,
but I have never yet been fortunate enough to meet with one of these
curious returns.

J.S.B.

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MISCELLANIES.

_Darkness at the Crucifixion_.--The following passage, in a volume
of Lectures by the Rev. H. Blunt, has fallen under my notice:--

"It was this Dionysius (the Areopagite) of whom
the earliest Christian historians relate that, being at
Heliopolis, in Egypt, at the time of our Lord's crucifixion,
when he beheld the mid-day darkness which
attended that awful event, he exclaimed, 'Either the
God of Nature suffers, or the frame of the world will
be dissolved.'"

Having very limited opportunity of studying the ancient historians,
I should be greatly obliged if you would inform me from what work
this account is derived; or refer me to any authors, _not_ having