Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ——"
ALFRED GATTY.
Mental Almanac (Vol. iv., p. 203.).
—MEM. The additive number for this present November is 1. Hence next Wednesday is 4 + 1, that is, the 5th. The Sunday following, is 1 + 1 + 7, that is, the 9th. And similarly for any other day or week in this month.
A. E. B
Leeds, Nov. 1. 1851.
Merlin and the Electric Telegraph.
—The following extract from the prophecy of Merlin in Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, book vii. ch. 4., reads rather curiously in these days of railways and of electric telegraph communication between France and England:—
"Eric shall hide his apples within it, and shall make subterraneous passages. At that time shall the stones speak, and the sea towards the Gallic Coast be contracted into a narrow space. On each bank shall one man hear another, and the soil of the isle shall be enlarged. The secrets of the deep shall be revealed, and Gaul shall tremble for fear."
I should like to be informed if there have ever been any detailed and systematic attempts made at interpreting the whole of this curious prophecy of Merlin's.