LONDON.
Columbus, Wis.
Please give us the derivation of the word “London.”
Will Smith.
Answer.—There is a fable that London was founded by Brute, a descendant of Æneas, and called New Troy, or Troy-novant, until the time of Lud, who surrounded it with walls and named it Caer Lud, or Lud’s town. But Haydn’s “Dictionary of Dates” contradicts this statement, and writes the old name Llyndin, meaning “the town on the lake.” The name is evidently of Celtic origin. It is claimed by some that there was a city on that same spot 1107 B. C., and it is known that the Romans found a city there called Londinium, A. D. 61.
THE HULLS—ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Lawler, Iowa.
1. Was General Hull, who surrendered at Detroit, a relative of Commodore Hull, of the United States frigate Constitution? 2. Of what nationality was Alexander Hamilton?
D. Hall.