Excurs. viii. p. 305.
These lines suggest the Query, Is this term for the alphabet still in use? and, if so, in what parts of the country?
Eirionnach.
Sir Walter Scott, and his Quotations from himself (Vol. ix, p. 72.).—I beg to submit to you the following characteristic similarity of expression, occurring in one of the poems and one of the novels of Sir Walter Scott. I am not aware whether attention has been drawn to it in the letters of Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Heber, as I have not the work at hand to consult:
"His grasp, as hard as glove of mail,
Forced the red blood-drop from the nail."
Rokeby, Canto I. Stan. 15.
"He wrung the Earl's hand with such frantic earnestness, that his grasp forced the blood to start under the nail."—Legend of Montrose.
N. L. T.
Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. viii., p. 527.).—Add Young's Night Thoughts, Night First, vers. 440-445.: