The question still remains, Why was the islet in question called Parva Hibernia?
B. WILLIAMS.
The Lodge, Hillingdon.
New Zealand Legend (Vol. v., p. 27.).
—This strange legend reminds me of the fine passage in Caractacus, of which I know not whether it is an original conception, or taken from any author:—
"Masters of wisdom! No: my soul confides
In that all-healing and all-forming Power,
Who, on the radiant day when Time was born,
Cast his broad eye upon the wild of ocean,
And calm'd it with a glance; then, plunging deep