REPLIES.

JAPANESE AMERICANA-With respect to the query [VI. 221] relating to the Life of Washington, published by the Japanese in forty-five volumes, I cannot speak; yet I have recently inspected the Life of General Grant, in seven volumes, printed in that language. The volumes form thin pamphlets, and when laid on their sides, edge to edge, the ornamental covers show a spirited design, representing some Japanese damsels draped in American flags, and executing a lively dance in the presence of the distinguished American. The volumes are profusely illustrated, and one sketch shows the General in the act of attempting a performance, which, it is safe to say, he was not taught when a Cadet in the Riding School at West Point, standing as he does on the "off" side of his fiery charger, with his left foot in the stirrup, trying to vault into the saddle; a position, however, not a bit more awkward than many another in which political generals often find themselves placed. These volumes have already become rare in Japan.

Historical Magazine, 1873, p. 104, has a note on the subject.

THE FIVE ZONES The question is asked [VI. 299] whether or not, the following extract from a letter by Columbus-" In the year 1477, in February, I navigated one hundred leagues beyond Thule"-comes from what Humboldt calls the "Tratado de las cinco Zonas Habitables." If not, the querist infers that Irving never saw the work. The conclusion is a safe one, especially as Humboldt himself never saw it, no such work being known to the bibliographer. Humboldt

made a slight slip in saying that it had become "extremely rare."

LATROBE'S WASHINGTON-On this point a correspondent writes to correct a statement [VII. 107] that Latrobe's sketch of Washington was made about the year 1790, as Latrobe did not come to America until 1796. See "Original Portraits of Washington," 1882, p. 136, which contain a fac-simile of the original rough draft.

JAMES SMITHSON [VII. 372]-In the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1879 there was published an elaborate memoir of James Smithson by William J. Rhees, prepared at the request of the board of regents of the institution. See page 143. It there appears that he was the natural son of Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, and Mrs. Elizabeth Macie, and was born about 1754, the exact date and circumstances of his birth being unknown. WM. NELSON.

MATCH-COATS [VI. 60, 325, 382; VII. 374]-John Richardson, a Quaker missionary, writing from Pennsylvania about 1700, says: "Match-coats is what they [the Indians] use instead of clothes to cover them withal, being of one piece, in the form of a blanket or bed-covering."-Some Account of the Conduct of the Relig ious Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes, etc., London, 1844, page 62.

WM. NELSON.

THE CAPTORS OF ANDRÉ-A correspondent of the New York Evening Post calls the attention of the "Association of

found to the east of the Querechos, at a distance of two hundred leagues eastwardly from the Rio de Tiguex, or Rio Grande del Norte, which places them in Northeastern Texas.

Possibly, also, the tribe or the river Daycas spoken of in Hernando de Soto's narrative in chapters 35 and 44, and said to be one hundred and fifty leagues west of his Rio Grande or Mississippi, was the same as the Atayos. J. C. B.

THE NEW YORK CONTINENTAL LINE IN

THE REVOLUTION [VII. 411]-In the December number of the Magazine for 1881, under this caption, it is stated that Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hamilton's Light Infantry Battalion, which marched to Yorktown, contained two companies of New York Levies. This was according to General Washington's orders of July 31, 1781, but on August 17th, at Dobb's Ferry, he substituted two companies of the regular Connecticut Continental Line for the Levies, each consisting of a captain, two subalterns, four sergeants, and fifty rank and file.

These companies were commanded respectively by Captains Lemuel Clift and Thaddeus Weed, of the First and Second Connecticut regiments. A. B. G.

DISPOSITION AND ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE ALLIED ARMIES [VII. 267; VIII. 59] -In the January number of the Magazine, Dr. William H. Egle, the co-laborer of the Hon. John Blair Linn in the preparation of that highly creditable work, Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution," takes exception to my designation of Brigadier-General Muhlenberg as from Pennsylvania, and mentions one or two

other alleged inaccuracies. Although the "disposition and order of battle" of the army in September, 1781, was a rough and hasty draft for another purpose, and never intended for publication in the Magazine, and therefore not prepared with that degree of critical attention which would otherwise have been given to it, nevertheless I cannot but think that General Muhlenberg was properly credited to Pennsylvania. His family were all Pennsylvanians.

He was a native of that State, and finally died there. As a minister of the Lutheran Church, his temporary home happened to be in Woodstock, Va., when the Revolution began; and his regiment, the Eighth Virginia, was largely composed of Lutheran Germans. On February 21, 1777, he became a brigadier-general of the regular Continental Line, and when the war ended, made his home in Pennsyl vania, where he became successively a member of the Executive Council, VicePresident of the State, representative and then senator in Congress, United States Supervisor of Revenue for the District of Pennsylvania, and finally Collector of the Port of Philadelphia.

I can appreciate Dr. Egle's feelings over any representative selections from Pennsylvania, for the supposed (?) Temple of Fame in the Capitol at Washington, which would omit a statue of the gallant Anthony Wayne, the hero of "Stony Point" and "Jamestown Ford." So many mediocre characters from civil life have, however, been selected for reproduction in monumental marble for that collection, that it can never be as interesting as it might have been. As to Brigadier-General Wayne, although com

part of the campaign, but whose name does not appear later.

When the combined army was nearly ready to move upon Yorktown from Williamsburg, Va., Washington organized it into brigades, giving Wayne a Virginia Continental regiment and "the two bat talions of Pennsylvania." Upon the investment of the enemy the field officers of the army took their turns as officers of the day, and the Orderly Book of the Siege gives their names and rotation. From Pennsylvania the only names that appear are those of Colonels Stewart and Butler, Lieut.-Col. Harmar, and Majors Alexander, Edwards and Hamilton. These six would just suffice for the two battalions, and from other references it is ascertained that they were arranged as given at the beginning of the Note. All these officers had been with Lafayette in the early part of the campaign, and four of them-Stewart, Harmar, Hamilton and Edwards-as well as Humpton, were in the Green Spring affair. Major Moore, named by Dr. Egle, is not mentioned in the Order Book, nor in any of the letters and journals, as far as known, until after the Pennsylvania troops moved southward, when Major James Moore is referred to by Feltman. He may have joined Wayne with the detachment under Colonel Craig and Lieut.-Col. Mentges, which reached Yorktown just as the siege closed. I find no mention anywhere of Major Thomas Moore.

As to Major Parr, it is quite safe to say that neither he nor his riflemen were at Yorktown. The riflemen who formed a part of the advanced guard on the march to that place, September 28, were a corps of Virginians under Col. Wm. I.

Lewis. (Order Book.) Major Parr James Parr, it must have been-had volunteered to raise a body of 300 riflemen for Washington's army in July and August, but did not succeed. but did not succeed. On September 1 the Pennsylvania Executive Council, considering "the little probability" that the corps could be completed, thanked the Major for his services and attention and requested him to return what funds remained in his hands. (Penn. Col. Rec.) Enough men were recruited to form about a company, and they were in bar. racks at York, Pa., October 1, under Capt. Livergood.

Finally, Major Reid, of Hazen's, mentioned as of the rear guard, was acting as Major of Barber's Light Infantry Battal ion, in which the Pennsylvania Line was not represented. not represented. This guard was mainly of New England and Jersey Infantry, and for that day only. The writer ventured to give a full roster of the armies at the siege in "The Yorktown Campaign,” etc., 1881. J.

- THE FIRST ALMANAC MAKER IN AMERICA (VII., 372).—John Tully was by no means the first almanac maker in America by over fifty years. According to Isaiah Thomas, in his "History of Printing in America" (vol. i., 43, 46), Stephen Day was the printer of the first almanac, published in America in 1639. It was titled, "An Almanac Calculated for New Eng land. By Mr. Pierce, Mariner," doubtless the one referred to by President Elliot. Day also printed an almanac, for 1640 and 1641, under which latter date Thomas says, “One or more almanacs were printed every year at the Cambridge press. In all of them the year begins in