- s. vii. FEB. 16, loci.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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think that a translation of * Natural Ques
tions' is not included in the Bohn serie
Messrs. Gamier Freres (Paris, 1885) hav
published "(Euvres Completes de Seneque(L
Philosophe), avec la Traduction Franchise d
la Collection Panckoucke." It is in fou
volumes, costing in paper covers, accordin
to the publishers' list, fourteen francs,
bought my bound copy some twelve year
ago in Paris for twelve francs, new. Messrs
Gamier publish a similar volume containing
the ' Tragedies de Seneque.'
The "Manual of Classical Literature from the German of J. J. Eschenburg
with Additions by N. W. Fiske
Fourth Edition Philadelphia 1844,
which gives lists of translations into modern languages (not always complete), mentions one unfinished translation of the works o Galen into German only.
EGBERT PIERPOINT. St. Austin's, Warrington.
ACHILL ISLAND (9 th S. vi. 489 ; vii. 36).
This is mentioned in the 'Annals of Loch
Ce,' or ' Book of the O'Duigenans,' under the
year 1235, as Eccuill, and in the * Annals of
the Four Masters,' under the same year, as
JSacpuil. These forms would not, I think,
yield " eagle." In Irish ec, eac, mean a horse,
and cuil a corner' recess ; but how to con-
strue them in compound I do not know
Irish dictionaries are not comprehensive.
There are, or lately were, eagles in Achill,
but I should think a yew-tree never grew
there. W. H. DUIGNAN.
Walsall.
Achill (akill) means " church ford," a being one of the forms of ath, a ford, in composi- tion. The ford is across the sound near Kildavnet Castle. (Mrs.) M. O'HANLON.
The Laurels, Walthamstow.
EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION (9 th S. vi. 368, 458 ; vii. 16). MR. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN has read too much into my note. I certainly intended to make no hot-headed claim for Liverpool. I merely said that the Liverpool Royal William and the Bristol Great Western were probably the first real passenger steamers to cross without recoaling. There is nothing in the claims of the Sirius to weaken this suggestion. In those early days it made a decided difference whether you left from England, particularly from Liverpool, or from the south of Ireland. The Sirius sailed from Queenstown (" the Cove of Cork," as it was then), and arrived a few hours before the Great Western. In no sense could she be called a real passenger steamer. That crossing
from Ireland was her first and last. The Royal
William returned with passengers (at 150
dollars each) and mails, and was the pioneer
of a regular Atlantic service. The ' Atlantic
Ferry ' deals fully with the Sirius, and yet
tabulates the Royal William as the first
passenger steamer. If I had no other object
than that of advancing local claims at any
cost, the Sirius would serve the purpose as
well as any other steamer ; for John Laird
was the leading spirit of the Steam Navigation
Company that chartered her. By the way, it
is difficult to see why "justice to Ireland"
should be urged in the matter. The Sirius
was built and engined in Scotland and owned
in England. The name of her captain,
Roberts, is not reminiscent of Ireland. It
is true she sailed from Queenstown, but under
the circumstances I venture to say that makes
no difference. GEORGE MARSHALL.
Sefton Park, Liverpool.
" PIN AND BOWL " AS AN INN SIGN (8 th S. ix.
424 ; x. 34, 120)." Pin " here is in the singu-
lar, because the corner pin in the ancient
game of skittles, ninepins, or kayles, as they
were variously called, was the key of the
situation. The sign was put up to signify
the attractions of a bowling-green, whence
such a resort was designated a " greenhouse "
or " garden-house," and denoted the " enter-
tainment" provided by a tavern rather than
- hat of an inn. The order was reversed in
- he case of the " Bowl and Pin," a tavern in
Upper Thames Street in 1781, where the Cat and Fiddle Society held their monthly rneet- ngs ('Banks Coll. Admission Tickets,' B.M., portfolio 1). It is noteworthy that there was a " Three Bowls " in Drury Lane, near Craven House (see 'Bagford Bills,' B.M., fol. 36, No. 156; Harh MS. 5,931), and a "Skittle- ball and Two Pins "in Bedfordbury ('Beau-
- oy Tokens,' No. 137); and it is of special
nterest to find the only surviving instance n London of the " Corner Pin," unless it has ately been effaced, at No. 2, Goswell Road, 'ormerly Goswell Street, the ancient highway Between London and Merry Islington, which pleasant rural village" it preceded in the ttractions of its pleasure resorts for pros- perous " cit." and easily huffed flat-cap. Stow n his 'Survey' (p. 160) alludes to these ttractions :
Then, from the farther end of Aldersgate
- reet, straight north to the bar, is called Goswell
- reet, replenished with small tenements, cottages
nd alleys, gardens, banqueting-houses, and bowi- ng-places."
The game of bowls has been traced to a )eriod as early as 1240, and monarchs and magistrates have often prohibited the game
