Where _Vernon's_ flag appear'd;
Around the shores they sung 'True Blue,'
And Britain's hero cheer'd.

"A mighty bowl on deck he drew,
And filled it to the brink;
Such drank the Burford's[2] gallant crew,
And such the gods shall drink.

"The sacred robe which Vernon wore
Was drenched within the same;
And hence his virtues guard our shore,
And _Grog_ derives its name."

W.H.S.

[The gallant correspondent to whom we are indebted for the
foregoing satisfactory, because early and documentary, evidence of
the etymology of the now familiar term GROG, informs us that there
is a still earlier ballad on the subject. We trust that he will be
enabled to recover that also, and put it on record in our columns.]


_Barnacles_.--In a _Chorographical Description of West, or Il-Jar
Connaught_, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, Esq., 1684, published by the Irish
Archaeological Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus mentioned:--

"There is the bird engendered by the sea out of timber long lying
in the sea. Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some
puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them. We call