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Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
page 52 of 68 (76%)
the kalendar of Saints.

D. ROCK.


[U.J.B., if desirous of further particulars respecting St. John
Nepomuc, may consult Mrs. Jameson's interesting _Legends of the
Monastic Orders_, pp. 214. 217.--ED.]


_Cavell, meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 473.).--I concur entirely with the
etymology of the word _cavell_ given at p. 473. A lake having been
drained in my country, the land is still divided into _Kavelingen_; as
lots of land were formerly measured by strings of cord, _kavel_,
_kabel_, _cable_. Vide Tuinman _Trakkel_, d. n. t. p. 165. _Kavelloten_
is to receive a cavell by _lot._ cf. _Idem, Verrolg_, p. 97.

JANUS DOUSA.


_Lord Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico._--Has Lord Kingsborough's
splendid work on Mexican hieroglyphics ever been completed or not?

J.A. GILES.


[This magnificent work has been recently completed by the
publication of the eighth volume, which may, we believe, be
procured from Mr. Henry Bohn.--ED.]

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