Distances at which Sounds have been heard.—The story of St. Paul's clock striking being heard by a sentry at Windsor is well known, and I believe authentic. Let me add the following:—The Rev. Hugh Salvin (who died vicar of Alston, Cumberland, Sept. 28, 1852) mentions an equally remarkable instance whilst he was chaplain on board H.M.S. "Cambridge," on the coast of South America:

"Our salutes at Chancay were heard at Callao, though the distance is thirty-five miles, and several projecting headlands intervene, and the wind always blows northward. The lieutenant of the Arab store-ship, to whom the circumstance was mentioned, observed, that upon one occasion the evening gun at Plymouth was heard at Ilfracomb, which is sixty miles off, and a mountainous country intervenes."—Journal of the Rev. H. S. Salvin, p. 64., 12mo.: Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1829.

Balliolensis.

Anagram.—The accompanying anagram I saw, some weeks back, in a country paper; perhaps you will give it a local habitation in "N. & Q." It is said to be by a president of one of the committees of the arrondissement of Valenciennes:

"A sa majestÉ impÉriale Le Szar Nicholas, souverain et autocrate de toutes les Russies."

"Oho! ta vanitÉ sera ta perte; elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs te maudiront À jamais."

Philip Strange.

Logan or Rocking Stones.—The following extract from Sir C. Anderson's Eight Weeks' Journal in Norway, &c. in 1852, under July 21, may interest your Devonshire and Cornish readers:

"Mr. De C——k, a most intelligent Danish gentleman, told me, that when a proprietor near Drammen, was at Bjornholm Island, in the Baltic, he was told there were stones which made a humming noise when pushed, and on examination they proved to be rocking-stones; on his return, he found on his own property several large stones, which, on removing the earth around them, were so balanced as to be moveable. If this be an accurate statement, it tends to strengthen the notion that stones, laid upon each other by natural causes, have, by application of a little labour, been made to move, as the stones at Brimham Craggs in Yorkshire; and this seems more likely than that such immense masses should have been ever raised by mechanical force and poised."

Balliolensis.