La Valetta, Malta.
Minor Notes.
Hippopotamus, Behemoth.
—The young animal which has drawn so much attention hitherto, will increase in attractiveness as he acquires his voice, for which the zoologist may now arectis auribus await the development. It has appeared singular to many who knew the Greek name of this animal to signify river-horse, that he should be so unlike a horse. Nevertheless, the Greeks who knew him only at a distance, as we did formerly, named him from his voice and ears after an animal which he so little resembles in other respects. The Egyptian words from which the Behemoth of Job (chap. xl. v. 10.) are derived, more fitly designate him as water-ox, B-ehe-moūt = literatim, the aquatic ox.
T. W. B.
Lichfield.
Curious Inscription (Vol. iv., pp. 88. 182.).
—My ecclesiological note-book supplies two additional examples of the curious kind of inscription communicated by your correspondents J. O. B. and MR. E. S. TAYLOR (by the way, the one mentioned by J. O. B. was found also at St. Olave's, Hart Street; see Weever, Fun. Mon.). These both occur at Winchester Cathedral: the first near a door in the north aisle, at the south-west angle:—
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