E. N. W.
Southwark.
290. Macfarlane's Geographical Collection.
—In almost every work treating of the history and topographical antiquities of Scotland, we are referred to Macfarlane's Geographical Collection, preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. This MS., and its author, are very little known, except by name, benorth the Tay, notwithstanding they are so often quoted. I should be glad if any of your correspondents would give me any information regarding the extent of country embraced, i.e. parishes, counties, &c., and if any part of it has been published per se, and when, and where.
ANTIQUARIENSIS.
Inverness.
291. "Acu tinali meridi."
—At the head of an English metrical discourse upon the administration of justice, in a MS. of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, in the Public Library, Cambridge, is placed the following obscure motto, upon which, perhaps, some correspondent can throw light:—
"O judex vi fervida hanc servabis artem,
Acu tinali merida .i. audi alteram partem."