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204 [9th S. IV. Sept. 9, TO? NOTES AND QUERIES. vol. i. p. 9.r), is a copy of the zodiac with emblems, &c, in it, in Holywood (otherwise Sacio Bosco), 'De Sphsera Mundi.' Cancer is a lobster. 86. Tinted star map of ecliptic pole, in Smyth, 'Life and Work at the Great Pyramid,' 1867, vol. iii. p. 285, pi. 7. Pyramid meridian star map for B.C. 2170, vol. iii. pi. 8, p. 285. Pyramid meridian star map for a.d. 1883, vol. iii. p. 285, pi. 9. 87. Circle of the heavens above the great pyramid, B.C. 3440. Ditto in B.C. 2170. Ditto m a.d. 1881, tinted plates, xiv., xv., xvi., in Smyth, ' Our Inheritance in the Great Pyra- mid,' 1874. 88. Painted by H. S. Marks in the Gothic Tea House, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Illus- trated London Xetvs, 29 August, 1874, p. 206. 89. Engravingof the Royal Archof Masonry, with the emblems of six signs on it; Taurus, Leo, Aquarius, Aquila being on a shield below, with Sol and Luna above, in Fellows, 'The Mystery of Freemasonry,' 1877. 90. On a celestial globe supported by Atlas, electrotype, 1877. In V.A.M. 91. Photograph of No. 90, by the V.A.M., copy of No. 3. 92. Steel plate engraving of the asterisros, to sho%v the origin from them of the emblems, by Rev. J. H. Broome, Vicar of Houghton, in the Astronomical Register, September, 1871. 93. Carved in square panels on a great stone arch in the front of Freemasons'Hall, Great Queen Street, London. 94. Painted in a circle in the coved ceiling of the Masonic Cabinet in the Holborn Restaurant, London. 95. Coloured drawing of No. 94 is in the Holborn Restaurant. 96. In the Grand Masonic Temple in the Holborn Restaurant the ceiling is adorned with the zodiacal circle surrounding the sun. 97. A black-and-white drawing of No. 96 is in the Restaurant. 98. On the Holborn Viaduct, London, is a bronze female figure of Science, with a tripod holding a globe on which is the zodiac. Aries is a ram's head. 99. There are plates of the signs in ' Primeval Man.' 100. A folding plate, 20 in. by 18* in., with the asterisms in gold on blue ground, is in 'The Astral Origin of the Emblems, the Zodiacal Signs, and the Astral Hebrew Alphabet,' by Rev. J. H. Broome, Vicar of Houghton, 1881. 101. A coloured drawing by Walter Crane of an astronomical ceiling is in the Camber- well Fine-Art Gallery, Peckham Road. The zodiac is in the centre, the seasons personified at the corners and outside the planets as deities. Cassell, Magazim of Art, 1881, vol. iv. p. 181. 102. Painted stone figures of the signs, on pedestals which support the deities with which they were respectively connected, are on the four sides of the clock tower of Cardiff Castle. Owen,' Guide to Cardiff,' 1881, p. 16. A. B. G. (To be continued.) Pope : a Misstatement. — One of the MS. note-books of the Rev. John Lambe, of Clare Hall, Camb., M.A., Rector of Ridly, co. Kent, now in my possession, contains the following interesting entry, made between 1720 and 1729 :— " It ia a dangerous thing to trust too much to a Man's Memory, in proving any matter by Quo- tations from Authors. The Ingenious Mr Pope has given too many Examples of this, & among the rest I wonder none of his Enemies had learning enough to remark the following Mistake. [In] book 18, v. 525, he makes this Note on y" Verse Then, slain by Phoebus (Hector had the Name) 'It is a passage worth taking notice of, that Brutus is said to have consulted the Sortes Homericce, & to have drawn one of these lines, wherein the Death of Patroclus is ascrib'd to Apollo; After which, Unthinkingly he gave the name of that God for the word of Battle. This is remark'd as an unfortunate omen by some of the ancients, tho I forget where I met with it.' He has indeed not only forgot where he met with it, but almost every part of y* Story it self; It is in Valerius Max: 1. 1, c. 5, de Ominibus, That Author tells us indeed that Brutus consulted the Sortes Homericse, but 'tis false that he drew any of these lines for tho Verse is in Val. set down which was this & not to be found in this book 'AAAa /« fioip' Ao>j xa' Aiirouc itcravtv viif. It is a greater mistake still to say that ho gave that Name Unthinkingly for y° word of Battle (that is as he himself means at y* fatal one at Philippi) for It is Mr Pope who has wrote all this Unthinkingly ; the direct contrary is true, viz., It was the word of battle given by the contrary side by Aug. Caesar, k M. Anthony, & so the God as Leader of his Enemies, might with much more propriety of Speech be said, or suppos'd, to be his Death, according as the Greek verse intimates, the Words in Val. are Qui deus Philippensi acie, a Caesare & Antonio signo datus, in eum tela convertit. Anyone may observe that as Mr Pope tells the Story it is quite Spoiled. Vide Appianuni lib. 4, de re eadem." W. I. R. V. Albert Gate, Knightsbkidge. (See 9lh S. i. 294.)—The following extract from the Pall Mall Gazette may be of interest in connexion with the former note with reference to Albert Gate. I am not aware that Planche wrote a farce on the subject of the two houses at Albert Gate, and think there must be some confusion on this point:— " We have an illustration of the change that has come over London people and their life at Albert Gate. The gate, with its two stags from the