embraced Christianity, who give a description of the crucifixion of
our Saviour; and especially with reference to the "darkness over all
the earth" at the time of that event, mentioned by St. Luke, who
also adds, that "the sun was darkened." Your kindly consenting, as
you did in your second number, to receive queries respecting
references, has induced me to trouble you so far.

S.A.M.

[Our correspondent will find much that is to his purpose, both in
the way of statements and of reference {187} to original
authorities, in Lardner's _Jewish and Heathen Testimonies_, chap.
xiii. of the Heathen Authors; vol. ii. p. 125. of the original 4to.
edition; or vol. vii. p. 370. of the 8vo. edition of his works by
Kippis, 1788.]


_High-Doctrine_.--In the Cambridgeshire fens there are a great
number of Dissenters, and I believe Cromwell's Ironsides were
chiefly recruited from those districts. On the higher lands
adjoining are the old parish churches; and in conversation it is not
uncommon to hear the tenets of the Church of England described as
_High land Doctrine_, in contra-distinction to the _Low land_, or
Dissenters' doctrine.

The thing is amusing, if nothing else, and I heard it while staying
some few years ago with my brother, who lives on the edges of the
Cambridgeshire fens.

E.H.