priests of Mithras forced the candidates for initiation to undergo.

T.J.

[Footnote 7: Forster, the translator of this work, annihilates
the argument for the settlement of the Welsh derived from the
word "penguin" signifying "white head," by the fact of the bird
in question having a _black_, not a _white_ head!]


_Collar of SS._ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--B. will find a great deal about
these collars in some interesting papers in the Gentleman's Magazine for
1842, vols. xvii. and xviii., conmunicated by Mr. J.G. Nicholls; and in
the Second Series of the Retrospective Review, vol. i. p. 302., and vol.
ii. pp. 156. 514. 518. Allow me to add a Query: Who are the persons now
privileged to wear these collars? and under what circumstances, and at
what dates, was such privilege reduced to its present limitation?

[Greek: Phi.]


_Martello Towers_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--A misspelling for _Mortella_
towers. They are named after a tower which commands the entrance to the
harbour of St. Fiorenzo, in Corsica; but they are common along the
coasts of the Mediterranean. They were built along the low parts of the
Sussex and Kent coasts, in consequence of the powerful defence made by
Ensign Le Tellier at the Tower of Mortella, with a garrison of 38 men
only, on 8th February, 1794, against an attack by sea, made by the
_Fortitude_ and _Juno_, part of Lord Hood's fleet, and by land, made by
a detachment of troops under Major-General Dundas. The two ships kept up