—In the parish of Innerwick, East Lothian, is a farm named Aimlescleugh, supposed to be a corruption of Elms-cleugh, which may possibly have a common origin with the locality referred to by your Harrowgate correspondent. Strange to say, the first meaning of the word cleugh, or cleuch, as given in Jamieson's Dictionary, is "a precipice, or rugged ascent."
E. N.
Artificial Memory (Vol. v., p. 305.).
—The hexameters on English counties given by C. S. P. remind me of the following verses, which used to assist the oblivious student at Oxford when preparing for an examination on Scripture history. It will be observed that the prosody is not strictly correct.
1. The five Cities of the Philistines. (Josh. xiii. 3.)
Askelon, Azotus, Gath, Gazæque additur Ekron. (Azotus is the same as Ashdod.)
2. The six Cities of Refuge. (Josh. xx. 7-9.)
Bezer, Golan, Gilead, urbes oriente locatæ; Solis ab occasu, Kadesh, Hebronque, Shechem.
3. The seven Deacons. (Acts vi. 5.)
Diaconi Septem, Stephanus, Philipque, Nicanor, Parmenas et Prochorus, Nicholas atque Timon.