JOHN MANLEY.
Pernambucco, June 30. 1851.
Aldgate, London. (A Note for London Antiquaries)
—After this gate was taken down in 1760, Sir Walter Blackett, of Wallington, Northumberland, obtained some of the ornamental stone (part of the City arms, heads and wings of dragons, apparently cut in Portland stone, and probably set up when the gate was rebuilt in 1606), and used them in decorating Rothley Castle, an eye-trap which he erected on the crags of that name, near Wallington.
W. C. TREVELYAN.
Wallington Aug. 11. 1851.
Erroneous Scripture Quotations.
—Some of your correspondents have done good service by drawing attention to these things. Has it ever occurred to you that the apple is a fruit never connected in Scripture with the fall of man;—that Eve was not Adam's helpmate, but merely a help meet for him;—and that Absalom's long hair, of which he was so proud, and which as consequently so often served "to point a moral and adorn a tale," had nothing to do with his death, his head itself, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree?
P. P.