some connection between it and the camel which often appears in old
pictures of the Magi offering their gifts. Can any of your readers
inform me of the real meaning of the name, and the origin of the custom,
and also whether a similar custom does not prevail in some parts of
Oxfordshire?

PWCCA.

_Fall of Rain in England._--Can you give me any information respecting
the fall of rain in England? I mean the quantity of rain that has fallen
in various parts of the island, from month to month, during the last
ten, fifteen, or twenty years. If any of your correspondents can do
that, or can give me a list of works, periodical or otherwise, in which
such information is to be found, they will greatly oblige me.

Can any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of the
following lines?--

"Though with forced mirth we oft may soothe a smart,
What seemeth well, is oft not well, I ween;
For many a burning breast and bleeding heart,
Hid under guise of mirth is often seen."

ROYDON.

_Rev. J. Edwards on Metals for Telescopes_.--I shall feel obliged if any
of your correspondents can inform me where I can find a paper, called
"Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals of reflecting
Telescopes, and the Method of grinding, polishing, and giving the great
Speculum the true parabolic figure," by the Rev. John Edwards, B.A.