[FN [h] Somner of Gavelk.

Sir John Spelman, Bussaeus, Somner, John Philip Murray, and Langebeck, who have all chosen spots totally different, in which to place Sciringes-heal.

Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dict., from Somner's Saxon Dict., 1659.'Eisel (Saxon), vinegar; verjuice; any acid': Johnson's Dict. 1st

James Allan died in 1810, and was survived by a son who sold to Mr. Francis Somner at Yetholm a terrier dog named Old Pepper, descended from his grandfather's famous dog Hitchem.

Old Pepper was the great-grandsire of Mr. Somner's well-known dog Shem.

It is an insight into the manners, modes of life, and ways of thinking that is of value; and Mr. Olmsted, who goes about, like Chaucer's Somner, "Ever inquiring upon everything," is just the person to supply a great want in our literature.

Somner derives the name from the Belgic Wentelen, volvere, versare se, a sinuosis flexibus.