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Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various
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the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same
Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbé de Rillan founded on
Borri's work?

JARLTZBERG.


_Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents
tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it refer to the fair
and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the remarkable John
Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after the
landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and whose person is admitted
to have been eminently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as to his
character and conduct?

2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words,
to his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July,
1689. All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point.

W.L.M.


_Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply
of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read:

"I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at
length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum
Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c.

I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an
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