[777] G. von Düben, Om Lappland och Lapparne, 1873, p. 251. Much curious lore on kindred topics will be found in Jean Scheffer’s Lapponia, 1673 (there is a useful English edition, published by Thos. Newborough, 1704).
[778] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., VIII. p. 112.
[779] Ibid. VII. p. 507.
[780] Possibly collected by masons for making mortar, during alterations (W. J.).
[781] Curious Church Customs, p. 141. Cf. Guide to Bronze Age, pp. 109, 126, for Siberian and Indian examples.
[782] M. D. Conway, Autobiography and Experiences, 1904, II. p. 77. The incident is not mentioned in Evelyn Ashley’s Life of Lord Palmerston, 1879, nor in the Marquis of Lorne’s Viscount Palmerston, 1892. Cf. Cornish Customs, as described in Vict. Hist. of Cornwall, 1906, I. p. 367.
[783] Guide to Bronze Age, p. 139.
[784] Guide to Early Iron Age, pp. 127, 129, 140.
[785] Indus. Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, p. 88; The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, p. 425.
[786] Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia. See “Works,” ed. S. Wilkin, 1884, III. p. 13.