whom, immediately after the Restoration, in July, 1660, the Privy
Council appointed a pension of 50l. a-year, and an additional allowance
of 2l. a-week.

CH.

_Fiz-gigs_.--In those excellent poems, Sandys's _Paraphrases on Job and
other Books of the Bible_, there is a word of a most destructive
character to the effect. Speaking of leviathan, he asks,

"Canst thou with _fiz-gigs_ pierce him to the quick?"

It may be an ignorant question, but I do not know what fiz-gigs are.

C.B.

_Specimens of Erica in Bloom_.--Can any of your correspondents oblige me
by the information where I can procure specimens in bloom of the
following plants, viz. Erica crescenta, Erica paperina, E. purpurea, E.
flammea, and at what season they come into blossom in England? If
specimens are not procurable without much expense and trouble, can you
supply me with the name of a work in which these plants are figured?

E.S.

Dover.

_Michael Scott, the Wizard_.--What works by Michael Scott, the reputed
wizard, (Sir Walter's _Deus ex Machina_ in _The Lay of the Last
Minstrel_), have been printed?