is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by
Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the
Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably
remembers.

A.G.

Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850.


_Quem Jupiter vult perdere priùs dementat_.--Malone, in a note in
_Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that
a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of
Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic.

"[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]"

The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in
Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to
be found? It is much nearer to the Latin.

C.


_Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.),
"P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon
Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p.
797., the following passage:--

"But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the