Springs and Wells (Vol. vi., p. 28.).—There is one of the "by-way wells, about which MR. RAWLINSON inquires, near the little hamlet of Sawr, which is situated about six miles from Llandilo Fawr in Carmarthenshire. It is much resorted to for the cure of sore eyes. So also is the spring known as "Holy Well," or Cefyn Bryn (a mountain which runs down the peninsula of Gower). This last is still supposed to be under the especial patronage of the Virgin Mary, and a crooked pin is the offering of every visitor to its sacred precincts. It is believed, that if this pin be dropped in with fervent faith, all the many pins which have ever been thrown into it may be seen rising from the bottom to greet the new one. Argue the impossibility of the thing, and you are told that it is true it never happens now, such earnestness of faith being, "alas!" extinct. SELEUCUS, Longevity (Vol. vi., pp. 62. 231.).—In the churchyard of Cheve Prior, Worcestershire, there is a record of a venerable worthy who died at the patriarchal age of 309! It is probably meant for 39, but the village chiseller thought fit to put the 30 first, and 9 afterwards. I copy this from the Worcester Chronicle for September 4. R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster. It appears by the register of the parish church, Minshead, near Nantwich, that in the year 1648 was buried there one Thomas Daunne, of Leighton, aged 154, or, as the register expresses it, seven score and fourteen. A. In the grave-yard at the east end of Battle Church, Sussex, is an upright stone "To the memory of Isaac Ingall, who died April 2, 1798, aged 120 years." JOHN MILAND. Dodo Queries (Vol. vi., pp. 35. 159.).— The derivation of this name from the Portuguese "Doudo" will not hold water at all, as the word has a directly opposite meaning to the idea we form of the Dodo as a stupid, foolish bird. 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