Yours, &c.

G.G.

[1] It is perhaps right to give his words. Speaking of a person
who acted as their guide, he says:--"Des folgenden Tages gieng er
mit uns 22 engl. Meilen bis Colchester zu Fuss; wo wir uns auf
die Land-Kutsche verdungen, mit welcher wir 50 englische Meilen
d. i. 10 teutsche Meilen bis London, in solcher Geschwindigkeit
endigten, dass wir auf dem ganzen Wege kaum 6 Stunden gefahren
sind; so schnell gehen die englischen Pferde; aber auch so schön
sind die englischen Wege." _Der Leitungen des Höchsten_, &c. Zw.
Theil. Halle, 1772, p.62.

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SANUTO'S DOGES OF VENICE.

Mr. Editor,--Among the well-wishers to your projected periodical,
as a medium of literary communication, no one would be more ready
to contribute to it than myself, did the leisure I enjoy permit me
often to do so. I have been a maker of _Notes and Queries_ for above
twenty-five years, and perhaps should feel more inclined to trouble
you with the latter than the former, in the hope of clearing up some
of the many obscure points in your history, biography, and poetical
literature, which have occurred to me in the course of my reading. At
present, as a very inadequate specimen of what I once designed to call
_Leisure Moments_, I beg to copy the following Note from one of my